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Interpretation, difficulty 3 of 3

Hospital records as a measure of illness

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A health department proposes to estimate how common asthma is among adults in a region by counting the adults admitted to the region's hospitals with asthma last year and dividing by the adult population. In two to four sentences, explain the main problems with using these administrative data for this purpose.