The growing amount of data in operational electronic health record systems provides unprecedented opportunity for its reuse for many tasks, including comparative effectiveness research. However, there are many caveats to the use of such data. Electronic health record data from clinical settings may be inaccurate, incomplete, transformed in ways that undermine their meaning, unrecoverable for research, of unknown provenance, of insufficient granularity, and incompatible with research protocols. However, the quantity and real-world nature of these data provide impetus for their use, and we develop a list of caveats to inform would-be users of such data as well as provide an informatics roadmap that aims to insure this opportunity to augment comparative effectiveness research can be best leveraged.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Hersh2013a
%A Hersh, William R
%A Weiner, Mark G
%A Embi, Peter J
%A Logan, Judith R
%A Payne, Philip R O
%A Bernstam, Elmer V
%A Lehmann, Harold P
%A Hripcsak, George
%A Hartzog, Timothy H
%A Cimino, James J
%A Saltz, Joel H
%D 2013
%J Medical care
%K ComparativeEffectivenessResearch/*organization& DataCollection/*methods/*standards DataInterpretation ElectronicHealthRecords/*organization&administ Humans InsuranceClaimReview/organization&administrati ResearchDesign/*standards Statistical
%N 8 Suppl 3
%P S30-7
%R 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31829b1dbd
%T Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research.
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23774517 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC3748381
%V 51
%X The growing amount of data in operational electronic health record systems provides unprecedented opportunity for its reuse for many tasks, including comparative effectiveness research. However, there are many caveats to the use of such data. Electronic health record data from clinical settings may be inaccurate, incomplete, transformed in ways that undermine their meaning, unrecoverable for research, of unknown provenance, of insufficient granularity, and incompatible with research protocols. However, the quantity and real-world nature of these data provide impetus for their use, and we develop a list of caveats to inform would-be users of such data as well as provide an informatics roadmap that aims to insure this opportunity to augment comparative effectiveness research can be best leveraged.
%@ 1537-1948 (Electronic)\r0025-7079 (Linking)
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abstract = {The growing amount of data in operational electronic health record systems provides unprecedented opportunity for its reuse for many tasks, including comparative effectiveness research. However, there are many caveats to the use of such data. Electronic health record data from clinical settings may be inaccurate, incomplete, transformed in ways that undermine their meaning, unrecoverable for research, of unknown provenance, of insufficient granularity, and incompatible with research protocols. However, the quantity and real-world nature of these data provide impetus for their use, and we develop a list of caveats to inform would-be users of such data as well as provide an informatics roadmap that aims to insure this opportunity to augment comparative effectiveness research can be best leveraged.},
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author = {Hersh, William R and Weiner, Mark G and Embi, Peter J and Logan, Judith R and Payne, Philip R O and Bernstam, Elmer V and Lehmann, Harold P and Hripcsak, George and Hartzog, Timothy H and Cimino, James J and Saltz, Joel H},
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journal = {Medical care},
keywords = {ComparativeEffectivenessResearch/*organization& DataCollection/*methods/*standards DataInterpretation ElectronicHealthRecords/*organization&administ Humans InsuranceClaimReview/organization&administrati ResearchDesign/*standards Statistical},
month = {8},
note = {Databases; CER},
number = {8 Suppl 3},
pages = {S30-7},
pmid = {23774517},
timestamp = {2023-02-03T11:44:35.000+0100},
title = {Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research.},
url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23774517 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC3748381},
volume = 51,
year = 2013
}