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Development and validation of automated electronic health record data reuse for a multidisciplinary quality dashboard

Objective To describe the development and validation of automated electronic health record data reuse for a multidisciplinary quality dashboard. Materials and methods Comparative study analyzing a manually extracted and an automatically extracted dataset with 262 patients treated for HNC cancer in a...

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Published in:Digital health 2023-01, Vol.9, p.20552076231191007-20552076231191007
Main Authors: Ebbers, Tom, Takes, Robert P, Honings, Jimmie, Smeele, Ludi E, Kool, Rudolf B, van den Broek, Guido B
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Language:English
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Summary:Objective To describe the development and validation of automated electronic health record data reuse for a multidisciplinary quality dashboard. Materials and methods Comparative study analyzing a manually extracted and an automatically extracted dataset with 262 patients treated for HNC cancer in a tertiary oncology center in the Netherlands in 2020. The primary outcome measures were the percentage of agreement on data elements required for calculating quality indicators and the difference between indicators results calculated using manually collected and indicators that used automatically extracted data. Results The results of this study demonstrate high agreement between manual and automatically collected variables, reaching up to 99.0% agreement. However, some variables demonstrate lower levels of agreement, with one variable showing only a 20.0% agreement rate. The indicator results obtained through manual collection and automatic extraction show high agreement in most cases, with discrepancy rates ranging from 0.3% to 3.5%. One indicator is identified as a negative outlier, with a discrepancy rate of nearly 25%. Conclusions This study shows that it is possible to use routinely collected structured data to reliably measure the quality of care in real-time, which could render manual data collection for quality measurement obsolete. To achieve reliable data reuse, it is important that relevant data is recorded as structured data during the care process. Furthermore, the results also imply that data validation is conditional to development of a reliable dashboard.
ISSN:2055-2076
2055-2076
DOI:10.1177/20552076231191007