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Challenges
- Varied HIT implementations for varied purposes
- Varied perspectives on what is important to evaluate
- Variable timing of implementations
- Community based studies, network effects
- Confounders
- Rapid time-frame for studies
- Data source challenges
- Availability
- Uniformity
- Metric definition
- Importance of numerators and denominators
- Financial constraints for data collection
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