Continuity and Completeness of Electronic Health Record Data for Patients Treated With Oral Hypoglycemic Agents: Findings From Healthcare Delivery Systems in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the continuity and completeness of electronic health record (EHR) data, and the concordance of select clinical outcomes and baseline comorbidities between EHR and linked claims data, from three healthcare delivery systems in Taiwan. Methods: We identified oral hypoglycemic agent (OHA) users from the Integrated Medical Database of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH-iMD), which was linked to the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), from June 2011 to December 2016. A secondary evaluation involved two additional EHR databases. We created consecutive 90-day periods before and after the first recorded OHA prescription and defined patients as having continuous EHR data if there was at least one encounter or prescription in a 90-day inter

SUBMITTER: Hsu CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9015706 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature