Moving low value care lists into action: prioritizing candidate health technologies for reassessment using administrative data

Monitoring Health Care Using National Administrative Data Collections

Using administrative data to assess health care outcomes.

community practice were not significantly different 1 year after PTCA or CABG surgery, consistent with a meta-analysis that summarized eight randomized trials comparing these procedures. However, of the three largest randomized trials in the meta-analysis, only the Randomised Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) trial enrolled a population that appeared clinically comparable to the observati...

Primary Care Practice Reports: Administrative Data Profiles for Identifying and Prioritizing Areas for Quality Improvement.

Information to help guide quality improvement activities in primary care should be readily available, routinely updated and include comparisons across groups, regions and jurisdictions. Primary care practice reports, developed jointly by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Health Quality Ontario, is one such effort. These data include practice demographics, the prevalence of comm...

The value of low-value lists.

AN INTERNATIONAL GROUNDSWELL OF ACTIVITY IS seeking to identify and reduce the use of health care services that provide little or no benefit— whether through overuse or misuse. There are strong imperatives for identifying such waste: (1) an ethical imperative to ensure patient safety and thus avoid tests and treatments that cause harm directly or indirectly without providing commensurate benefi...

Using administrative lists to estimate census omissions.

"We present a method for estimating omission rates from censuses. Our method is based on the merger of administrative lists, sampling from these lists, and matching against census rolls. We describe the method, present the results of a test in New York City...in 1980, and evalute the results. We compare our proposed method to other procedures for estimating omission rates."