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SynthesisJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in medical informatics.

Anthony D Harris, Jessina C McGregor, Eli N Perencevich, Jon P Furuno, Jingkun Zhu, Dan E Peterson, Joseph Finkelstein

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Synthesis in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 291 papers, 21 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

291 citing papers in PubMed, 21 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  18. Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  19. A Systematic Review of Clinical Decision Support Systems for Clinical Oncology Practice.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2019
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231 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Anthony D HarrisDivision of Healthcare Outcomes Research, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 100 N. Greene Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD, USA. aharris@epi.umaryland.edu
Jessina C McGregor
Eli N Perencevich
Jon P Furuno
Jingkun Zhu
Dan E Peterson
Joseph Finkelstein

Funding

Hypertension Telemanagement in African AmericansR01HL078579 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI FINKELSTEIN, JOSEPH E · 2004 to 2008
$3.7M
Evaluation of Home Automated Telemanagement in COPDR01HL071690 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI FINKELSTEIN, JOSEPH E · 2004 to 2008
$3.6M
Epidemiology of imipenem-resistant P.aeruginosaR01AI060859 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI HARRIS, ANTHONY D · 2005 to 2013
$1.9M
Study design importance in analyzing emerging pathogensK23AI001752 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI HARRIS, ANTHONY D · 2001 to 2005
$662k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071690NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL078579NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL71690NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI01752-01A1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI60859-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quasi-experimental study designs, often described as nonrandomized, pre-post intervention studies, are common in the medical informatics literature. Yet little has been written about the benefits and limitations of the quasi-experimental approach as applied to informatics studies. This paper outlines a relative hierarchy and nomenclature of quasi-experimental study designs that is applicable to medical informatics intervention studies. In addition, the authors performed a systematic review of two medical informatics journals, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) and the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), to determine the number of quasi-experimental studies published and how the studies are classified on the above-mentioned relative hierarchy. They hope that future medical informatics studies will implement higher level quasi-experimental study designs that yield more convincing evidence for causal links between medical informatics interventions and outcomes.

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Evaluation Studies as TopicResearch DesignMedical Informatics

Identifiers

PMID16221933
PMCPMC1380192

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