Reported SOFA abstractions were classified as early, late and delta according to the definition used to compute the SOFA endpoint (Table 87).
Method:Data were drawn from a prospective study of pregnant women (N=568) in the southeastern U.S. Maternal demographic, health information, depressive symptoms, and birth data were collected via self-report and medical record abstraction.
This informatics infrastructure is not without its limitations, however, one of which is that data must be captured via patient report or chart abstraction and then manually entered into the TOPDP database.
To validate the self-reported cancers, staff retrieved medical records (for standardized medical record abstraction of pathology reports), death certificates, data from state cancer registries, and information from next-of-kin for deceased participants.
Consultants review the clinical data needs of your research project, provide advice on requesting IRB approval to obtain clinical data from the Clinical Data Warehouse and discuss options for clinical data abstraction, reporting, and storage to meet your research needs.
Prior studies have questioned the validity of using other methods such as provider reports and chart abstraction for performance assessment related to behavioral counseling and specifically tobacco-related screening and advice [ 19- 24].
Data on clinical and economic outcomes will be collected from three main sources: self-report instruments, chart abstraction, and health plan administrative data (healthcare utilization and, where available, lab values) from participants' employers.
Although our study focused on comparing time delays in patient assessments, prior studies have also evaluated other sources of quality assessment data for tobacco cessation counseling including provider reports and chart abstraction.
Second order constructs, typically used in meta-synthesis, are the thematic statements or abstractions reported as study findings or conclusions by the original authors that should provide more insight or explanation about the phenomenon.
Medical conditions such as respiratory infections or clinical AIDS events were identified through self-report and confirmed through standardized medical record abstraction.
Two authors (KEAB, NKJA), not blinded to the source of the reports, used a standardised data abstraction form to independently abstract data regarding study methods (randomisation, allocation concealment, cointerventions, blinded outcome assessment, completeness of follow-up, and adherence to the intention to treat principle).
