Disease associations depend on visit type: results from a visit-wide association study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) increased the number of reported disease association studies, or Phenome-Wide Association Studies (PheWAS). Traditional PheWAS studies ignore visit type (i.e., department/service conducting the visit). In this study, we investigate the role of visit type on disease association results in the first Visit-Wide Association Study or 'VisitWAS'.

Results

We studied this visit type effect on association results using EHR data from the University of Pennsylvania. Penn EHR data comes from 1,048 different departments and clinics. We analyzed differences between cancer and obstetrics/gynecologist (Ob/Gyn) visits. Some findings were expected (i.e., increase of neoplasm diagnoses among cancer visits), but others w

SUBMITTER: Boland MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625053 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature