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ArticleJAMA network open2020

Assessment of Electronic Health Record Search Patterns and Practices by Practitioners in a Large Integrated Health Care System.

Halley Ruppel, Aashish Bhardwaj, Raj N Manickam, Julia Adler-Milstein, Marc Flagg, Manuel Ballesca, Vincent X Liu

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Article in JAMA network open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Halley RuppelDivision of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
Aashish BhardwajDivision of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
Raj N ManickamDivision of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
Julia Adler-MilsteinDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Marc FlaggThe Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California.
Manuel BallescaThe Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California.
Vincent X LiuDivision of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
Kaiser Permanente · USColorado Permanente Medical Group · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

UCSF/Kaiser-DOR Program for Developing Independent Women's Health ResearchersK12HD052163 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ADLER, NANCY E, BRINDIS, CLAIRE D. · 2005 to 2023
$9.3M
Identifying pre-sepsis opportunities for early, targeted intervention - Equipment SupplementR35GM128672 · NIGMS · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Vincent Liu · 2018 to 2026
$4.3M
NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD052163NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Importance: The electronic health record (EHR) is a source of practitioner dissatisfaction in part because of challenges with information retrieval. To improve data accessibility, a better understanding of practitioners' information needs within individual patient records is needed. Objective: To assess EHR users' searches using data from a large integrated health care system. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective cross-sectional analysis used EHR search data from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, an integrated health care delivery system with more than 4.4 million members. Users' EHR search activity data were obtained from April 1, 2018, to May 15, 2019. Main Outcomes and Measures: Search term frequency was grouped by user and practitioner types. Network analyses were performed of co-occurring search terms within a single search episode, and centrality measures for search terms (degree and betweenness centrality) were calculated. Results: A total of 12 313 047 search activities (including 4 328 330 searches and 7 984 717 result views) conducted by 34 735 unique users within 977 160 unique patient EHRs were identified. In aggregate, users searched for 208 374 unique search terms and conducted a median of 4 searches (interquartile range, 1-28 searches). Of all 97 367 active EHR users, 34 735 (35.7%) conducted at least 1 search. However, of all 12 968 active EHR physician users, 9801 (75.6%) conducted at least 1 search, and of all 1908 active pharmacist users, 1402 (73.5%) conducted at least 1 search. The top 3 most commonly searched terms were statin (75 017 searches [1.7%]), colonoscopy (73 545 [1.7%]), and pft (54 990 [1.3%]). However, wide variation in top searches were noted across practitioner groups. Terms searched most often with another term in a single linked search episode included statin, lisinopril, colonoscopy, gabapentin, and aspirin. Conclusions and Relevance: Although physicians and pharmacists were the most active users of EHR searches, search volume and frequently searched terms varied considerably by and within user role. Further customization of the EHR interface may help leverage users' search content and patterns to improve targeted information retrieval.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedElectronic Health RecordsPractice Patterns, Physicians'Cross-Sectional StudiesHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalRetrospective StudiesTerminology as Topic

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PMID32142128
PMCPMC7060491
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