Increasing trust in real-world evidence through evaluation of observational data quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Advances in standardization of observational healthcare data have enabled methodological breakthroughs, rapid global collaboration, and generation of real-world evidence to improve patient outcomes. Standardizations in data structure, such as use of common data models, need to be coupled with standardized approaches for data quality assessment. To ensure confidence in real-world evidence generated from the analysis of real-world data, one must first have confidence in the data itself.

Materials and methods

We describe the implementation of check types across a data quality framework of conformance, completeness, plausibility, with both verification and validation. We illustrate how data quality checks, paired with decision thresholds, can be configured to customize

SUBMITTER: Blacketer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449628 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature