Using the CER Hub to ensure data quality in a multi-institution smoking cessation study.
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) studies involving multiple institutions with diverse electronic health records (EHRs) depend on high quality data. To ensure uniformity of data derived from different EHR systems and implementations, the CER Hub informatics platform developed a quality assurance (QA) process using tools and data formats available through the CER Hub. The QA process, implemented here in a study of smoking cessation services in primary care, used the 'emrAdapter' [...]
Author(s): Walker, Kari L, Kirillova, Olga, Gillespie, Suzanne E, Hsiao, David, Pishchalenko, Valentyna, Pai, Akshatha Kalsanka, Puro, Jon E, Plumley, Robert, Kudyakov, Rustam, Hu, Weiming, Allisany, Art, McBurnie, MaryAnn, Kurtz, Stephen E, Hazlehurst, Brian L
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002629