The approach of Abidi et al. aims to avoid the effort of authoring by automatically transforming electronic medical records (EMRs) into cases [ 23].
This study provides preliminary evidence that technology platforms that allow for automated EMR data extraction, case identification and risk stratification may help potentiate the effect of known readmission reduction strategies, in particular those that emphasise intensive and early post-discharge outpatient contact.
In other cases, EMR was documented by MRI (47%), CT (42%) or ultrasound (10%).
Of the 17 total contraindications for stroke thrombolysis that can be extracted from the EMR, the four cases had six different and a total of nine contraindications.
Of the 1044 patients identified as potential cases through EMR, we excluded 209 patients who did not meet the case definition.
If an intern was uncertain of what to do about a particular case, the EMR system made it easy to either call a chief physician who could look up the patient's case history in the EMR, or (in less urgent cases) send an electronic note to a chief physician who would see the memo in his work-list and could look up the case when he had time.
Among procedure identified cases, the EMR review found the index date to be the first incidence of dyspepsia for 92%, with 6% having EMR evidence in the baseline period of dyspepsia or gastritis that were not in the claims data, and 3%, EMR notes relating to dyspepsia or gastritis earlier than the index date, but with no specific dates.
In contrast, the false decision probability is maintained very low in case of EMR-ARP since the sufficiently long puzzle computation time resolves the unfairness issue caused by unbalanced transmission rates or MAC-layer access delay in wired and wireless network.
Our objective was to describe the respective roles of the i2b2 research query tool and the electronic medical record (EMR) in conducting a case-controlled clinical study at our institution.
Each EMR is unique and EMR systems do not necessarily contain all data elements necessary for a given case definition.
