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Quantifying clinical data quality using relative gold standards.

Michael G Kahn1, Brian B Eliason, Janet Bathurst

  • 1The Children's Hospital, Denver CO.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|February 25, 2011
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Summary
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This study introduces a new method to assess the quality of descriptive clinical data, like patient race, by comparing data across different internal databases. This approach helps improve the reliability of electronic medical record data for research and quality measures.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Data Science
  • Clinical Data Management

Background:

  • Detailed clinical data is crucial for strategic planning, quality measures, and research.
  • Current methods for assessing clinical data quality in large databases often fail to evaluate descriptive elements like patient race.
  • Ensuring high-quality clinical data is essential for reliable healthcare insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and present a novel method for quantifying the data quality of descriptive elements within enterprise clinical databases.
  • To address the limitations of existing data quality assessment tools for non-numeric or descriptive data.
  • To establish a framework for improving the trustworthiness of electronic medical record data.

Main Methods:

  • Leveraged multiple intra-institutional databases with varying data quality for the same descriptive elements.
  • Developed a 'relative gold standard' concept to compare and assess data quality.
  • Applied predefined data quality queries and a novel comparative approach to detect anomalies in descriptive data.

Main Results:

  • Successfully quantified data quality for descriptive elements by utilizing inter-database comparisons.
  • Demonstrated the applicability of the relative gold standard method in assessing enterprise clinical databases.
  • Provided a new approach to identify and address data quality issues in patient demographic information.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method offers a viable solution for assessing the quality of descriptive clinical data, overcoming limitations of traditional techniques.
  • This approach enhances the reliability of data used for clinical quality measures, strategic planning, and research.
  • Implementing this method can lead to more accurate and trustworthy healthcare data.