Titre : Médecine légale

Médecine légale : Questions médicales fréquentes

Termes MeSH sélectionnés :

Data Accuracy
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Excellent agreement of Norwegian trauma registry data compared to corresponding data in electronic patient records.

The Norwegian Trauma Registry (NTR) is designed to monitor and improve the quality and outcome of trauma care delivered by Norwegian trauma hospitals. Patient care is evaluated through specific qualit... We validated 49 of the 118 variables registered in the NTR by comparing those with the corresponding ones in electronic patient records for 180 patients with a trauma diagnosis admitted in 2019 at eig... Almost perfect agreement (AC... All tested variables in the Norwegian Trauma Registry displayed excellent agreement with the corresponding variables in electronic patient records. Variables in the registry that showed missing data n...

Assessment of immunization data management practices in Cameroon: unveiling potential barriers to immunization data quality.

One crucial obstacle to attaining universal immunization coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa is the paucity of timely and high-quality data. This challenge, in part, stems from the fact that many frontline... A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted, involving health districts and health facilities in all 10 regions in Cameroon selected by a multi-stage sampling scheme. Structured questionnaires a... A total of 265 facilities in 68 health districts were assessed. There was limited availability of some data recording tools like vaccination cards (43%), maintenance registers (8%), and stock cards (5... Our findings unveil important gaps in data collection practices at the facility level that could adversely affect Cameroon's immunization data quality. It highlights the urgent need for systematic cap...

Mdwgan-gp: data augmentation for gene expression data based on multiple discriminator WGAN-GP.

Although gene expression data play significant roles in biological and medical studies, their applications are hampered due to the difficulty and high expenses of gathering them through biological exp... In this study, an improved data augmentation approach MDWGAN-GP, a generative adversarial network model with multiple discriminators, is proposed. In addition, a novel method is devised for enriching ... The experimental results have demonstrated that compared with other state-of-the-art methods, the MDWGAN-GP method can produce higher quality generated gene expression data in most cases....

Accuracy of ethnicity records at primary and secondary healthcare services in Waikato region, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ethnicity is an important variable, and in Aotearoa New Zealand it is used to monitor population health needs, health services outcomes and to allocate resources. However, there is a history of underc... Through individual record linkage, prospective self-reported ethnicity, collected using New Zealand Census and Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora ethnicity protocol as a "gold standard", was compared ... Māori were undercounted in secondary NHI (32.5%) and primary care (31.3%) datasets compared to self-reported (34.6%). Between 9.5-11% of individuals had a different ethnicity recorded in health datase... Routine health datasets fail to adequately collect ethnicity, particularly for those with multiple ethnicities. Inaccuracies disproportionately affect Māori and urgent efforts are needed to improve co...

Drivers and Barriers to Improved Data Quality and Data-Use Practices: An Interpretative Qualitative Study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

An objective of the Information Revolution Roadmap of Ethiopia's Health Sector Transformation Plan was to improve health management information system (HMIS) data quality and data use at the point of ... We conducted an interpretative qualitative study across all 11 health centers in 3 subcities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Yeka, Akaki-Kaliti, and Ledeta. A total of 40 key informant interviews and 6 focu... Our findings indicate that the main drivers of data quality and use at the point of service delivery were the use of the Connected Woreda strategy and its tools, capacity-building activities including... Improvements in quality and use of HMIS data at health facilities are expected to result in delivering better-quality health services to the community as data enable health workers to identify gaps in...

Clinical annotations for prostate cancer research: Defining data elements, creating a reproducible analytical pipeline, and assessing data quality.

Routine clinical data from clinical charts are indispensable for retrospective and prospective observational studies and clinical trials. Their reproducibility is often not assessed. We developed a pr... For men with prostate cancer who had clinical-grade paired tumor-normal sequencing at a comprehensive cancer center, we performed team-based retrospective data collection from the electronic medical r... Data elements on demographics, diagnosis and staging, disease state at the time of procuring a genomically characterized sample, and clinical outcomes were piloted and then abstracted for 2261 patient... With a prostate cancer-specific data dictionary and quality control measures, manual clinical annotations by a multidisciplinary team can be scalable and reproducible. The data dictionary and the R pa...

Validation of Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) Data and Implications for Improving Data Quality and Representativeness.

Surveillance modernization efforts emphasize the potential use of electronic health record (EHR) data to inform public health surveillance and prevention. However, EHR data streams vary widely in thei... We developed a validation process for the Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) pilot project to identify and resolve data quality issues that could affect chronic disease pre... We identified gaps in the EHR databases of data contributors and in the processes to extract, map, integrate, and analyze their EHR data. Examples of source-data problems included missing data on race... Validation protocols identified critical errors in both EHR source data and in the processes used to transform these data for analysis. Our experience highlights the value and importance of data valid...