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• Limitations of administrative datasets

• Formidable problems with linkage and tracking health outcomes

• Questionable relevance of administrative datasets in an era of

individualized therapy

• Administrative datasets are unlikely to resolve the toughest

questions about reimbursement

• Decision-making in the policy arena requires a sophisticated,

multifacetted research capability of the kind that is found for

the most part in academic centres rather than in government

agencies.

Question 6:

What are some of the policy questions NPDUIS

should try to address?

There are a number of caveat concerning the potential

Relevance of NPDUIS to evidence-based policy making:

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