Leveraging electronic health records for data science: common pitfalls and how to avoid them

CM Sauer, LC Chen, SL Hyland, A Girbes… - The Lancet Digital …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Analysis of electronic health records (EHRs) is an increasingly common approach for
studying real-world patient data. Use of routinely collected data offers several advantages …

Electronic health record data quality assessment and tools: a systematic review

AE Lewis, N Weiskopf, ZB Abrams… - Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objective We extended a 2013 literature review on electronic health record (EHR) data
quality assessment approaches and tools to determine recent improvements or changes in …

Assessing the practice of data quality evaluation in a national clinical data research network through a systematic scoping review in the era of real-world data

J Bian, T Lyu, A Loiacono… - Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective To synthesize data quality (DQ) dimensions and assessment methods of real-
world data, especially electronic health records, through a systematic scoping review and to …

Association of physician orders for life-sustaining treatment with ICU admission among patients hospitalized near the end of life

RY Lee, LC Brumback, S Sathitratanacheewin… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients with chronic illness frequently use Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining
Treatment (POLST) to document treatment limitations. Objectives To evaluate the …

[HTML][HTML] Data quality in health research: integrative literature review

FA Bernardi, D Alves, N Crepaldi, DB Yamada… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Decision-making and strategies to improve service delivery must be supported
by reliable health data to generate consistent evidence on health status. The data quality …

Estimated impact of COVID-19 on preventive care service delivery: an observational cohort study

S Laing, S Johnston - BMC health services research, 2021 - Springer
Background COVID-19 has caused significant healthcare service disruptions. Surgical
backlogs have been estimated but not for other healthcare services. This study aims to …

Cardiovascular care innovation through data-driven discoveries in the electronic health record

LS Dhingra, M Shen, A Mangla, R Khera - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The electronic health record (EHR) represents a rich source of patient information,
increasingly being leveraged for cardiovascular research. Although its primary use remains …

Data quality in health care: main concepts and assessment methodologies

M Mashoufi, H Ayatollahi… - … of Information in …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Introduction In the health care environment, a huge volume of data is produced on a daily
basis. However, the processes of collecting, storing, sharing, analyzing, and reporting health …

Implementation of the trial emulation approach in medical research: a scoping review

G Scola, A Chis Ster, D Bean, N Pareek… - BMC Medical Research …, 2023 - Springer
Background When conducting randomised controlled trials is impractical, an alternative is to
carry out an observational study. However, making valid causal inferences from …

Validity of incident opioid use disorder (OUD) diagnoses in administrative data: a chart verification study

BA Howell, EA Abel, D Park, SN Edmond… - Journal of general …, 2021 - Springer
Background An important strategy to address the opioid overdose epidemic involves
identifying people at elevated risk of overdose, particularly those with opioid use disorder …