Abstract
The health services planner seeking data to support the planning process is presented with something of a paradox. The healthcare industry generates a wealth of data, but large portions of this bounty are inaccessible to planners. Unlike other industries, healthcare has never developed national clearinghouses for bringing industry data into a central repository. When data are available, they often suffer from a lack of standardized reporting format, thus limiting the comparability of much of the data from site to site or from time period to time period. Since health-related information is often internally generated by private healthcare organizations, potentially useful health data sets may be unpublished, proprietary, and/or difficult to interpret.
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(2003). Information Sources and Data Management. In: Thomas, R.K. (eds) Health Services Planning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47890-1_12
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