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Validation of an electronic trigger to measure missed diagnosis of stroke in emergency departments.

Viralkumar VaghaniLi WeiUmair MushtaqDean F SittigAndrea BradfordHardeep Singh
Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2021)
In a large national EHR repository, a symptom-disease pair-based e-trigger identified missed diagnoses of stroke with a modest positive predictive value, underscoring the need for chart review validation procedures to identify diagnostic errors in large data sets.
Keyphrases
  • atrial fibrillation
  • electronic health record
  • quality improvement
  • patient safety
  • big data
  • cerebral ischemia