Table.

Difficulties met by regional coordinators in generating regional data for 1993 and 1995. Values are numbers of difficulties mentioned by coordinators

Difficulties	1993 data (n=15)	1995 data (n=13)
No central point covering region	7	9*
Data were hospital based	4	4†
Quality of data in doubt	4	3*
Data aggregated or defined differently from confidential inquiry data	3	3
Low priority given to providing regional data	0	3
Lack of staff	2	3
Data not totalled	2	2*
Incompatible, non-uniform information systems	1	2*
Technical problems	1	1
Fee requested	1	?
Data no longer available or available too late	1	1
Data not available for research	0	1

^*In one case, other sources indicate that difficulty still exists, but was not specifically mentioned by the coordinator in the 1996 survey.  

^†In all cases the difficulty still exists but was not specifically mentioned.