Availability of Pediatric Emergency Visit Data from Existing Data Sources

Availability of pediatric emergency visit data from existing data sources.

OBJECTIVES To determine the availability and completeness of selected data elements from administrative and clinical sources for emergency department (ED) visits in a national pediatric research network. METHODS This was a retrospective study of 25 EDs in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Data were obtained from two sources at each ED: 1) extant electronic administrative ...

Towards automatic deployment of data platforms from existing data sources

Combining Data from Existing Company Data Sources: Architecture and Experiences

Combining and utilizing data from different sources is a common problem in many companies today. Useful data can be found in various applications, such as spreadsheets, project management software or version management systems, but it is often an arduous and manual task to combine the information and regularly utilize it in a larger context. In this paper we describe an open architecture for co...

Emergency Department Data for Bioterrorism Surveillance: Electronic Data Availability, Timeliness, Sources and Standards

Emergency Department (ED) data are a key component of bioterrorism surveillance systems. Little research has been done to examine differences in ED data capture and entry across hospitals, regions and states. The purpose of this study was to describe the current state of ED data for use in bioterrorism surveillance in 2 regions of the country. We found that chief complaint (CC) data are availab...

Lack of agreement in pediatric emergency department discharge diagnoses from clinical and administrative data sources.

BACKGROUND Diagnosis information from existing data sources is used commonly for epidemiologic, administrative, and research purposes. The quality of such data for emergency department (ED) visits is unknown. OBJECTIVES To determine the agreement on final diagnoses between two sources, electronic administrative sources and manually abstracted medical records, for pediatric ED visits, in a mul...