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Healthy Data: Improving Health Information Quality Using Intelligent Systems

Conditions
Data Quality
Registration Number
NCT05144230
Lead Sponsor
University of Portsmouth
Brief Summary

Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR) play an integral role in healthcare practice, enabling health organisations to collect, access and manage data more consistently. There is also a great deal of interest in using EHR data to improve decision-making and accelerate medical interventions. However, like all information systems, they are prone to data quality problems such as incomplete records, values outside normal ranges and implausible relationships. These problems are expected to become more prevalent as more organisations adopt electronic health record systems, aggregate, share and explore health data. The investigators believe current efforts to improve health data quality can be made more effective if backed by appropriate technology in the form of a readily accessible intelligent tool. Building on this, the investigators developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for automating data quality assessment of health data. In this study, the investigators evaluate the AI tool using a real-world dataset.

Detailed Description

The main aim of this study is to assess the reliability and utility of an AI tool in identifying data quality dimensions of interest for secondary use of health data, including completeness, conformance and plausibility. In assessing this tool, this study will retrospectively analyse data captured during routine clinical care and identify records containing listed data quality dimensions. This study will also assess the consistency of the AI tool in generating and executing data quality checks.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60000
Inclusion Criteria
  • No specific exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria
  • No specific exclusion criteria

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Validity of AI tool detection2 months, through study completion

Validity of data quality dimensions identified by the AI tool

Data quality dimensions prevalence12 months, between 01/01/2020 and 31/12/2020

The number of patient records identified by the AI tool with completeness, conformance and plausibility violations

Consistency of AI tool2 months, through study completion

Consistency of AI tool in generating measures for detecting data quality dimensions

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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