Harmonized Data Quality Assessments on Emergency Data Across Multiple Hospitals

Studies in health technology and informatics, vol. 336, pp. 236–237

Abstract

We present harmonized data quality (DQ) assessments of EHR data extracted from the emergency departments (EDs) of different hospitals. The analyzed data included 1,420,198 cases across six data items. Five DQ indicators and related parameters encompassing the completeness and uniqueness dimensions were evaluated automatically across 52 EDs. Our assessments revealed 64,536 DQ issues, all of which were completeness issues. Seven leading EDs had the highest score (100%) across all indicators. In contrast, ten EDs scored below 50% in terms of the completeness of daily data collection due to data gaps. Our study provides effective methods and promising results that support the secondary use of EHR data in clinical research and public health. It can be used for DQ benchmarking across various EDs.

Authors 7

1. Kais Tahar

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

2. Wiebke Schirrmeister

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

3. Saskia Ehrentreich

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

4. Susanne Drynda

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

5. Jonas Bienzeisler Aachen Institute of Medical Informatics

   Universitätsklinikum Aachen · RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute of Medical Informatics, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

6. Felix Walcher

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

7. Ronny Otto

   University Hospital Magdeburg · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, University Medicine Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany