Development and implementation of an automated electronic health record-linked registry for emergency general surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite adoption of the emergency general surgery (EGS) service by hospitals nationally, quality improvement (QI) and research for this patient population are challenging because of the lack of population-specific registries. Past efforts have been limited by difficulties in identifying EGS patients within institutions and labor-intensive approaches to data capture. Thus, we created an automated electronic health record (EHR)-linked registry for EGS.

Methods

We built a registry within the Epic EHR at University of California San Diego for the EGS service. Existing EHR labels that identified patients seen by the EGS team were used to create our automated inclusion rules. Registry validation was performed using a retrospective cohort of EGS patients in a 30-month

SUBMITTER: Mou Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9329176 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature