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Information technology and the inferential gap.

Jonathan B Perlin1, Joel Kupersmith

  • 1HCA Healthcare, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Jonathan.Perlin@HCAHealthcare.com

Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|January 30, 2007
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Bridging the inferential gap in medicine requires better evidence application. Electronic health records can improve real-world clinical decision-making by supporting evidence use and research.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Evidence-Based Medicine

Background:

  • An "inferential gap" in medical practice arises from not applying existing evidence or lacking evidence for specific clinical situations.
  • Randomized controlled trials, while the gold standard, have limited real-world generalizability.
  • Observational studies offer better generalizability but face challenges with bias and data quality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the inferential gap in clinical practice.
  • To explore the potential of electronic health records in bridging this gap.
  • To enhance the application of evidence in real-world medical scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Discussion of limitations in current evidence-based medicine practices.

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  • Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of randomized controlled trials and observational studies.
  • Exploration of the role of electronic health records (EHRs) in clinical decision support and research.

    • Main Results:

    • Identified two key contexts for the inferential gap in medicine.
    • Highlighted the trade-offs between generalizability and bias in different study designs.
    • Proposed EHRs as a solution for real-time information and large-scale observational research.

    Conclusions:

    • Electronic health records offer a promising platform to address the inferential gap.
    • EHRs can facilitate the real-time presentation of relevant clinical information.
    • EHRs support both the application of existing evidence and the conduct of novel research in clinical practice.