A Common Longitudinal Intensive Care Unit data Format (CLIF) to enable multi-institutional federated critical illness research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critical illness, or acute organ failure requiring life support, threatens over five million American lives annually. Electronic health record (EHR) data are a source of granular information that could generate crucial insights into the nature and optimal treatment of critical illness. However, data management, security, and standardization are barriers to large-scale critical illness EHR studies.

Methods

A consortium of critical care physicians and data scientists from eight US healthcare systems developed the Common Longitudinal Intensive Care Unit (ICU) data Format (CLIF), an open-source database format that harmonizes a minimum set of ICU Data Elements for use in critical illness research. We created a pipeline to process adult ICU EHR data at each site. After

SUBMITTER: Rojas JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11398431 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature