Feasibility of extracting data from electronic medical records for research: an international comparative study

• Main Authors: van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Mastellos, Nikolaos, Majeed, Azeem, O’Donoghue, John, Car, Josip
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Electronic medical records; Electronic health records [MeSH]
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82110; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41121
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: Electronic medical records (EMR) offer a major potential for secondary use of data for research which can improve the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare. They also enable the measurement of disease burden at the population level. However, the extent to which this is feasible in...