Patient characteristics associated with venous thromboembolic events: a cohort study using pooled electronic health record data
Patient characteristics associated with venous thromboembolic events: a cohort study using pooled electronic health record data
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DOI:
10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000782
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发表时间:
2012-11-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Jain, Anil K.
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作者:
Kaelber, David C.;Foster, Wendy;Jain, Anil K.
Objective To demonstrate the potential of de-identified clinical data from multiple healthcare systems using different electronic health records (EHR) to be efficiently used for very large retrospective cohort studies.Materials and methods Data of 959 030 patients, pooled from multiple different healthcare systems with distinct ERR, were obtained. Data were standardized and normalized using common ontologies, searchable through a HIPAA-compliant, patient de-identified web application (Explore; Explorys Inc). Patients were 26 years or older seen in multiple healthcare systems from 1999 to 2011 with data from EHR.Results Comparing obese, tall subjects with normal body mass index, short subjects, the venous thromboembolic events (VIE) OR was 1.83 (95% CI 1.76 to 1.91) for women and 1.21 (1.10 to 1.32) for men. Weight had more effect then height on VIE. Compared with Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino subjects had a much lower risk of VIE (female OR 0.47, 0.41 to 0.55; male OR 0.24, 0.20 to 0.28) and African-Americans a substantially higher risk (female OR 1.83, 1.76 to 1.91; male OR 1.58, 1.50 to 1.66). This 13-year retrospective study of almost one million patients was performed over approximately 125 h in 11 weeks, part time by the five authors.Discussion As research informatics tools develop and more clinical data become available in ERR, it is important to study and understand unique opportunities for clinical research informatics to transform the scale and resources needed to perform certain types of clinical research.Conclusions With the right clinical research informatics tools and EHR data, some types of very large cohort studies can be completed with minimal resources.