Question

Discuss common sources of data accessed in producing data for medical management, and how problems with each of these data sources cause problems with the others. Example AHRQ.gov/talkingquality/measures/understand/index.html

Answer 1

Ans) Depending on the measure, data can be collected from different sources, including medical records, patient surveys, and administrative databases used to pay bills or to manage care.

-  Health care data sets are an important source of information for understanding health disparities and addressing health inequities in patient population. Most health care data captures information about services that individual patients receive during encounters with the health care system.

- Medical databases serve a critical function in healthcare, including the areas of patient care, administration, research and education. Healthcare databasesare most frequently developed for the purpose of assessing the quality of healthcare, often for a specific disease or within a specific healthcare delivery system.S