Administrative Data for Research: An Increasingly Powerful Tool, but Still With Caveats

Recent decades have seen an explosion of administrative and clinical databases. Most developed countries now maintain a variety of aging and long-term care-related data sets at the national level; in the United States they include the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Nursing Home Resident Assessment database,1 the Outcome Assessment and Information Set (OASIS) for home health patients,2 a variety of Medicare databases,3 the Online Survey, Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) database,4 and surveys such as the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Philip D. Sloane, Vincent Mor, John S. Preisser Tags: Editorial Source Type: research