Processing of Electronic Medical Records for Health Services Research in an Academic Medical Center: Methods and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain a wealth of information that can support data-driven decision making in health care policy design and service planning. Although research using EMRs has become increasingly prevalent, challenges such as coding inconsistency, data validity, and lack of suitable measures in important domains still hinder the progress.

Objective

The objective of this study was to design a structured way to process records in administrative EMR systems for health services research and assess validity in selected areas.

Methods

On the basis of a local hospital EMR system in Singapore, we developed a structured framework for EMR data processing, including standardization and phenotyping of diagnosis codes, construction of cohort with mult

SUBMITTER: Rahman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320424 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature