An institutional health care provider is preparing to do a retrospective database analysis to deter-mine the relationships between treatment options, outcomes, and costs of various interventions used to treat arthritis
Which factor is an advantage of this type of analysis?
a. Changes in policy, circumstances, or actual treatment methods over time may af-fect results.
b. It relies on the use of accurate current procedural terminology (CPT).
c. Data analysis can be technically challenging owing to large unrelated data sets.
d. Data are readily available, and they reflect the institution's historical experience.
ANS: D
Under the retrospective database analysis approach, a database of clinical and economic infor-mation is evaluated using statistical and mathematical methods to determine the relationship be-tween treatment options, outcomes, and costs. The advantage of this approach is that the data are usually readily available and reflect the historical experience of the particular organization.
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