Biases introduced by filtering electronic health records for patients with "complete data"

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1134-1141

  Weber, Griffin M ^a,b   Adams, William G ^c   Bernstam, Elmer V ^d   Bickel, Jonathan P ^e   Fox, Kathe P ^f   Marsolo, Keith ^g   Raghavan, Vijay A ^h   Turchin, Alexander ⁱ   Zhou, Xiaobo ^j   Murphy, Shawn N ^k   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Department of Analytics and Behavior Change ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

Claims data; Data accuracy; Electronic health records; Information storage and retrieval; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OUTPATIENT; SEX RATIO; WORKFLOW; INSURANCE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS; DATA ACCURACY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING;

EID: 85032903264     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx071     Document Type: Article

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