Creating a health informatics data resource for hearing health research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Institute of Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC) for Hearing Health has been established in the UK to curate routinely collected hearing health data to address research questions. This study defines priority research areas, outlines its aims, governance structure and demonstrates how hearing health data have been integrated into a common data model using pure tone audiometry (PTA) as a case study.

Methods

After identifying key research aims in hearing health, the governance structure for the NIHR HIC for Hearing Health is described. The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) was chosen as our common data model to provide a case study example.

Results

The NIHR HIC Hearing Health theme have dev

SUBMITTER: Mehta N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11285202 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature