Creating a Medication Therapy Observational Research Database from an Electronic Medical Record: Challenges and Data Curation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Observational research has shown its potential to complement experimental research and clinical trials by secondary use of treatment data from hospital care processes. It can also be applied to better understand pediatric drug utilization for establishing safer drug therapy. Clinical documentation processes often limit data quality in pediatric medical records requiring data curation steps, which are mostly underestimated.

Objectives

 The objectives of this study were to transform and curate data from a departmental electronic medical record into an observational research database. We particularly aim at identifying data quality problems, illustrating reasons for such problems and describing the systematic data curation process established to create high-quality

SUBMITTER: Rodle W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10849827 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature