Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Mar 2010
The impact of electronic medical records data sources on an adverse drug event quality measure.
To examine the impact of billing and clinical data extracted from an electronic medical record system on the calculation of an adverse drug event (ADE) quality measure approved for use in The Joint Commission's ORYX program, a mandatory national hospital quality reporting system. ⋯ More detailed clinical information may result in quality measures that are not comparable across institutions due institution-specific workflow, differences that are exposed using EMR-derived data.