Establishment of a Public Mental Health Database for Research Purposes in the Ferrara Province: Development and Preliminary Evaluation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The immediate use of data exported from electronic health records (EHRs) for research is often limited by the necessity to transform data elements into an actual data set.

Objective

This paper describes the methodology for establishing a data set that originated from an EHR registry that included clinical, health service, and sociodemographic information.

Methods

The Extract, Transform, Load process was applied to raw data collected at the Integrated Department of Mental Health and Pathological Addictions in Ferrara, Italy, from 1925 to February 18, 2021, to build the new, anonymized Ferrara-Psychiatry (FEPSY) database. Information collected before the first EHR was implemented (ie, in 1991) was excluded. An unsupervised cluster analysis was performed to id

SUBMITTER: Ferrara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461404 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature