Quality of Hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data Based on the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) in Heart Failure: Pilot Data Quality Assessment Study.
Hannelore AertsDipak KalraCarlos SáezJuan Manuel Ramírez-AnguitaMiguel Angel MayerJuan Miguel García-GómezMarta Durà-HernándezGeert ThienpontPascal CoorevitsPublished in: JMIR medical informatics (2021)
Overall, results of this pilot study revealed good data quality for the subset of heart failure outcomes collected at the Hospital del Mar. Nevertheless, some important data errors were identified that were caused by fundamentally different data collection practices in routine clinical care versus research, for which the ICHOM standard set was originally developed. To truly examine to what extent hospitals today are able to routinely collect the evidence of their success in achieving good health outcomes, future research would benefit from performing more extensive data quality assessments, including all data items from the ICHOM standards set and across multiple hospitals.