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ArticleCurrent protocols in human genetics2019

Using Electronic Health Records To Generate Phenotypes For Research.

Sarah A Pendergrass, Dana C Crawford

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Article in Current protocols in human genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 2 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarah A PendergrassBiomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Geisinger Research, Rockville, Maryland.
Dana C CrawfordCleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of ClevelandUL1TR000439 · NCATS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI KONSTAN, MICHAEL W. · 2012 to 2016
$50.0M
Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of ClevelandUL1TR002548 · NCATS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI MCCOMSEY, GRACE A · 2018 to 2022
$35.5M
An Atlas of Clinical Associations mapping to Variants within Protein StructuresR01GM126249 · NIGMS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI BUSH, WILLIAM S, CRAWFORD, DANA C · 2018 to 2020
$910k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000439NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002548NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126249
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic health records contain patient-level data collected during and for clinical care. Data within the electronic health record include diagnostic billing codes, procedure codes, vital signs, laboratory test results, clinical imaging, and physician notes. With repeated clinic visits, these data are longitudinal, providing important information on disease development, progression, and response to treatment or intervention strategies. The near universal adoption of electronic health records nationally has the potential to provide population-scale real-world clinical data accessible for biomedical research, including genetic association studies. For this research potential to be realized, high-quality research-grade variables must be extracted from these clinical data warehouses. We describe here common and emerging electronic phenotyping approaches applied to electronic health records, as well as current limitations of both the approaches and the biases associated with these clinically collected data that impact their use in research. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Indexed as

Data MiningElectronic Health RecordsAlgorithmsHumansPhenotypecomputable phenotypingelectronic health recordselectronic medical recordselectronic phenotypingprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID30516347
PMCPMC6318047

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