Can Electronic Health Records Validly Estimate the Effects of Health System Interventions Aimed at Controlling Body Weight?
John A GallisKristie KusibabJoseph R EggerMaren K OlsenSandy AskewDori M SteinbergGary G BennettPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2020)
The results of this study can be used to help guide the planning of future pragmatic weight-related trials. This study provides evidence that body weight measurements abstracted from the EHR can provide valid, efficient, and cost-effective data to estimate treatment effects from randomized clinical weight loss and weight management trials. However, care should be taken to properly understand the data-generating process and any mechanisms that may affect the validity of these estimates.
Keyphrases
- body weight
- electronic health record
- weight loss
- physical activity
- healthcare
- clinical decision support
- bariatric surgery
- body mass index
- open label
- double blind
- big data
- clinical trial
- roux en y gastric bypass
- quality improvement
- skeletal muscle
- pain management
- phase ii
- placebo controlled
- drug induced
- smoking cessation