Using Electronic Health Records for Population Health Research: A Review of Methods and Applications

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 61-81

  Casey, Joan A ^a,b   Schwartz, Brian S ^c,d,e   Stewart, Walter F ^f   Adler, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^f SUTTER HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

EHR; Electronic health records; Environmental epidemiology; Geographic information systems; Health determinants; Social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; RECALL BIAS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STUDY DESIGN; TIME; AGE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VITAL SIGN;

AGE FACTORS; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84982823010     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021353     Document Type: Review

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