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Health Services Data: Managing the Data Warehouse: 25 Years of Experience at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy

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The “Data Repository” at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) is a cornerstone of the organization and one of the three “pillars” on which it stands (the other two being Research Program and Knowledge Translation). For 25 years, MCHP has maintained one of the most extensive collections of government administrative, survey, and clinical data holdings in the world, including everything from hospital and medical claims to child welfare services and educational enrolment and outcomes. Over 70 different government and clinical databases flow into the organization on an annual basis. This chapter outlines how the data are collected, organized, documented, managed, and accessed in a privacy protecting fashion for use by researchers in Canada, North America, and around the world. The research conducted by MCHP, which is located in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, in addition to being relevant to policy and government decision makers is regularly published in leading academic journals. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the relative strengths of using a population-based longitudinal registry and some of the challenges faced in organizing and using available data for research purposes.

Patricia J. Martens: deceased.

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  1. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Mark Smith, Leslie L. Roos, Charles Burchill, Ken Turner, Dave G. Towns, Say P. Hong, Jessica S. Jarmasz, Noralou P. Roos, Marni Brownell, Ruth-Ann Soodeen & J. Patrick Nicol

  2. University Advancement, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Tyler Ostapyk

  3. Montreal, QC, Canada

    Joshua Ginter

  4. Finlayson and Associates Consulting, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Greg Finlayson

  5. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Lisa M. Lix

  6. ICES Central, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mahmoud Azimaee

  7. Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Patricia J. Martens

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  1. Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Ph.D. Adrian Levy

  2. ICON plc, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Sarah Goring

  3. Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Constantine Gatsonis

  4. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Boris Sobolev

  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Ewout van Ginneken

  6. Department Health Care Management Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Reinhard Busse

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Smith, M. et al. (2019). Health Services Data: Managing the Data Warehouse: 25 Years of Experience at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. In: Levy, A., Goring, S., Gatsonis, C., Sobolev, B., van Ginneken, E., Busse, R. (eds) Health Services Evaluation. Health Services Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8715-3_3

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