Collecting and monitoring performance measure data are resource-intensive, requiring time and effort by a team that includes health care providers treating the patients and documenting their care, quality personnel monitoring and working to optimize performance rates, and quality abstractors, who extract information from the medical record. Recently, an additional group of people have become in...

BACKGROUND The increasing use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems for documenting clinical medical data has led to EMR data being increasingly accessed for clinical trials. In this study, a database of patients who were prescribed statins for the first time was developed using EMR data. A clinical data mart (CDM) was developed for cohort study researchers. METHODS Seoul St. Mary's Hosp...

On 24 and 25 October 2013, the European Medicines Agency organised a “Workshop on methods for efficacy studies in the everyday practice” as a preparatory step to the development of scientific guidance on post-authorisation efficacy studies (PAES), which the European Medicines Agency will develop according to a mandate set out in the new pharmacovigilance legislation and subsequent to any output...