Faciszewski T
Marshfield Clinic, Department of Orthopaedics, Wisconsin, USA.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1997 Jun 1;22(11):1270-5. doi: 10.1097/00007632-199706010-00023.
The use of administrative health care databases for the storage and retrieval of information is increasing. The data collection, entry, and collation follows a predictable process for hospital admissions. Many conclusions have been drawn from research performed using administrative databases. These conclusions can have significant and important implications for patients, providers, and society at large, to the extent that such data inform participants in the current health care policy debate. In an effort to better understand the significance of conclusions drawn from studies that rely on electronic administrative databases as their source of information, the present report addresses the process, strengths, weaknesses, and future plans for the use of administrative databases in spine research.
利用行政医疗保健数据库来存储和检索信息的情况正在增加。对于医院入院病例，数据收集、录入和整理遵循可预测的流程。使用行政数据库开展的研究已经得出了许多结论。这些结论可能对患者、医疗服务提供者以及整个社会具有重大且重要的影响，因为此类数据为当前医疗保健政策辩论中的参与者提供了信息依据。为了更好地理解依赖电子行政数据库作为信息来源的研究所得出结论的重要性，本报告阐述了行政数据库在脊柱研究中的使用流程、优势、劣势以及未来计划。
