ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2009
Implementing and maintaining a researchable database from electronic medical records: a perspective from an academic family medicine department.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Understanding data provenance when using electronic medical records for research: Lessons learned from the Deliver Primary Healthcare Information (DELPHI) database.International journal of population data science · 2023Article
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- A basic model for assessing primary health care electronic medical record data quality.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2019Article
- Psychosocial diagnoses occurring after patients present with fatigue.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016Article
- Development of a large urban longitudinal HIV clinical cohort using a web-based platform to merge electronically and manually abstracted data from disparate medical record systems: technical challenges and innovative solutions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2016Article
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- Reusing electronic patient data for dental clinical research: a review of current status.Journal of dentistry · 2013Review
- Comparisons of multi-morbidity in family practice--issues and biases.Family practice · 2013Article
- Using electronic dental record data for research: a data-mapping study.Journal of dental research · 2013Article
- Development of a relational database to capture and merge clinical history with the quantitative results of radionuclide renography.Journal of nuclear medicine technology · 2012Article
- What are wait times to see a specialist? an analysis of 26,942 referrals in southwestern Ontario.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2012Article
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Abstract
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are posited as a tool for improving practice, policy and research in primary healthcare. This paper describes the Deliver Primary Healthcare Information (DELPHI) Project at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, focusing on its development, current status and research potential in order to share experiences with researchers in similar contexts. The project progressed through four stages: (a) participant recruitment, (b) EMR software modification and implementation, (c) database creation and (d) data quality assessment. Currently, the DELPHI database holds more than two years of high-quality, de-identified data from 10 practices, with 30,000 patients and nearly a quarter of a million encounters.
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