Electronic health records identify timely trends in childhood mental health conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic health records (EHRs) data provide an opportunity to collect patient information rapidly, efficiently and at scale. National collaborative research networks, such as PEDSnet, aggregate EHRs data across institutions, enabling rapid identification of pediatric disease cohorts and generating new knowledge for medical conditions. To date, aggregation of EHR data has had limited applications in advancing our understanding of mental health (MH) conditions, in part due to the limited research in clinical informatics, necessary for the translation of EHR data to child mental health research.

Methods

In this cohort study, a comprehensive EHR-based typology was developed by an interdisciplinary team, with expertise in informatics and child and adolescent psychiat

SUBMITTER: Elia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503059 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature