Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

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.

publication date

  • August 1, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Data Collection
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Research Design

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3748381

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84879885267

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31829b1dbd

PubMed ID

  • 23774517

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 51

issue

  • 8 Suppl 3