Using computer-extracted data from electronic health records to measure the quality of adolescent well-care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether quality measures based on computer-extracted EHR data can reproduce findings based on data manually extracted by reviewers.

Data sources

We studied 12 measures of care indicated for adolescent well-care visits for 597 patients in three pediatric health systems.

Study design

Observational study.

Data collection/extraction methods

Manual reviewers collected quality data from the EHR. Site personnel programmed their EHR systems to extract the same data from structured fields in the EHR according to national health IT standards.

Principal findings

Overall performance measured via computer-extracted data was 21.9 percent, compared with 53.2 percent for manual data. Agreement measures were high for immunizations. Otherwise, agree

SUBMITTER: Gardner W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4239847 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature