Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature
interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts …

Nowadays, the importance of achieving and maintaining a high standard of data quality is
widely recognized by both practitioners and researchers. Based on its impact on …

Understanding the successful adoption of information technology is largely based upon
understanding the linkages among quality, satisfaction, and usage. Although the satisfaction …

Over the past years the number of medical registries has increased sharply. Their value
strongly depends on the quality of the data contained in the registry. To optimize data …

Previous studies have presented convincing arguments that a frequent pattern mining
algorithm should not mine all frequent patterns but only the closed ones because the latter …

Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT
initiatives. However, few of these projects achieve their stated goals and some of them are …

Purpose: The technological developments have implied that companies store increasingly
more data. However, data quality maintenance work is often neglected, and poor quality …

The rapid growth of the Internet as an environment for information exchange and the lack of
enforceable standards regarding the information it contains has lead to numerous …

Methods: We propose a “fit-for-use” conceptual model for data quality assessment and a
process model for planning and conducting single-site and multisite data quality …