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ArticleEGEMS (Washington, DC)2014

The HMO Research Network Virtual Data Warehouse: A Public Data Model to Support Collaboration.

Tyler R Ross, Daniel Ng, Jeffrey S Brown, Roy Pardee, Mark C Hornbrook, Gene Hart, John F Steiner

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Article in EGEMS (Washington, DC), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 325 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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325citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

325 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tyler R RossGroup Health Research Institute ; Group Health Cooperative.
Daniel NgKaiser Permanente Northern California.
Jeffrey S BrownHarvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute ; Harvard Medical School.
Roy PardeeGroup Health Research Institute ; Group Health Cooperative.
Mark C HornbrookKaiser Permanente Center for Health Research-Northwest.
Gene HartGroup Health Research Institute ; Group Health Cooperative.
John F SteinerKaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research.

Funding

The HMO Cancer Research Network (CRN)U19CA079689 · NCI · KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON · PI WAGNER, EDWARD H · 1999 to 2011
$62.6M
CRN4: Cancer Research Resources & Collaboration in Integrated Health Care SystemsU24CA171524 · NCI · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI KUSHI, LAWRENCE H · 2012 to 2016
$16.0M
AcademyHealth Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum for Comparative Effectiveness RU13HS019564 · AHRQ · ACADEMYHEALTH · PI HOLVE, ERIN C · 2010 to 2010
$3.9M
AHRQ HHS U13 HS019564NCI NIH HHS U19 CA079689NCI NIH HHS U24 CA171524
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HMO Research Network (HMORN) Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW) is a public, non-proprietary, research-focused data model implemented at 17 health care systems across the United States. The HMORN has created a governance structure and specified policies concerning the VDW's content, development, implementation, and quality assurance. Data extracted from the VDW have been used by thousands of studies published in peer-reviewed journal articles. Advances in software supporting care delivery and claims processing and the availability of new data sources have greatly expanded the data available for research, but substantially increased the complexity of data management. The VDW data model incorporates software and data advances to ensure that comprehensive, up-to-date data of known quality are available for research. VDW governance works to accommodate new data and system complexities. This article highlights the HMORN VDW data model, its governance principles, data content, and quality assurance procedures. Our goal is to share the VDW data model and its operations to those wishing to implement a distributed interoperable health care data system.

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Data ReuseHealth Information TechnologyInformaticsResearch NetworksStandardized Data Collection

Identifiers

PMID25848584
PMCPMC4371424

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