An Administrative Data Maturity Model - Building national administrative data capacity to produce results for children.

Administrative data versus corrected administrative data.

The purpose of this research was to provide insight into the use of existing administrative data and to identify changes that could be made to improve broad-based use of administrative data. Data were collected on patients hospitalized with pneumonia at a 715 bed hospital in North Carolina in 1996-1997. Patients were selected from administrative databases via diagnosis and charge codes. Outcome...

Sepsis in Canadian children: a national analysis using administrative data

BACKGROUND Severe infection resulting in sepsis is recognized as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The purpose of this study is to use longitudinal, population-based data to report national-level hospital metrics, providing a current assessment of the status of sepsis hospitalizations in Canadian children. METHODS We performed an analysis of previously abstracted data from...

Fathers of Children in W-2 Families: Results of an Analysis of Administrative and Survey Data

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 made radical changes to the way the nation provides income support to low-income families. The main program that provided cash assistance to single-parent families for over 60 years, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), was replaced with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF allows sta...

An Administrative Model for UCON

UCONABC is an emerging access control framework that lacks an administration model. In this paper we define the problem of administration and propose a novel administrative model. At the core of this model is the concept of attribute, which is also the central component of UCONABC . In our model, attributes are created by the assertions of subjects, which ascribe properties/rights to other subj...

Monitoring Health Care Using National Administrative Data Collections