Quality assessment of automatically extracted data from GPs' EPR
De Clercq, E.; Moreels, S.; Van Casteren, V.; Bossuyt, N.; Goderis, G.; Bartholomeeusen, S.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 180: 726-730
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 22874287 Document Number: 661102
There are many secondary benefits to collecting routine primary care data, but we first need to understand some of the properties of this data. In this paper we describe the method used to assess the PPV and sensitivity of data extracted from Belgian GPs' EPR (diagnoses, drug prescriptions, referrals, and certain parameters), using data collected through an electronic questionnaire as a gold standard. We describe the results of the ResoPrim phase 2 project, which involved 4 software systems and 43 practices (10,307 patients). This method of assessment could also be applied to other research networks.