Effectiveness of electronic medical record-based strategies for death and hospital admission endpoint capture in pragmatic clinical trials.
Event capture in clinical trials is resource-intensive, and electronic medical records (EMRs) offer a potential solution. This study develops algorithms for EMR-based death and hospitalization capture and compares them with traditional event capture methods.
Author(s): Rahafrooz, Maryam, Elbers, Danne C, Gopal, Jay R, Ren, Junling, Chan, Nathan H, Yildirim, Cenk, Desai, Akshay S, Santos, Abigail A, Murray, Karen, Havighurst, Thomas, Udell, Jacob A, Farkouh, Michael E, Cooper, Lawton, Gaziano, J Michael, Vardeny, Orly, Mao, Lu, Kim, KyungMann, Gagnon, David R, Solomon, Scott D, Joseph, Jacob
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae303