Where To Start? A Preliminary Data Quality Checklist For Emergency Medical Services Data

While national statistical offices and other central agencies that use administrative health data tend to have data quality programs in place, primary collectors of these data (e.g., hospitals or out-of-hospital medical service organizations) might be less likely to have such programs in place. This paper presents a preliminary Data Quality Checklist, which is based on the theory and practices from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, but is customized to facilitate ongoing data quality improvement for primary collectors of administrative health service data. The purpose of this paper is to begin formalizing the content of the Data Quality Checklist.