Title
Electronic medical record: research tool for pancreatic cancer
UMMS Affiliation
Surgical Outcomes Analysis and Research (SOAR), Department of Surgery; Office of Information Systems, Massachusetts Integrated Clinical Academic Research Database; Senior Scholars Program
Publication Date
2014-4
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Academic Medical Centers; Aged; Biomedical Research; Databases, Factual; Electronic Health Records; Female; Hospital Information Systems; Humans; International Classification of Diseases; Male; Middle Aged; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Reproducibility of Results
Disciplines
Health Information Technology | Health Services Administration | Surgery | Translational Medical Research
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A novel data warehouse based on automated retrieval from an institutional health care information system (HIS) was made available to be compared with a traditional prospectively maintained surgical database.
METHODS: A newly established institutional data warehouse at a single-institution academic medical center autopopulated by HIS was queried for International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis codes for pancreatic neoplasm. Patients with ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for pancreatic neoplasm were captured. A parallel query was performed using a prospective database populated by manual entry. Duplicated patients and those unique to either data set were identified. All patients were manually reviewed to determine the accuracy of diagnosis.
RESULTS: A total of 1107 patients were identified from the HIS-linked data set with pancreatic neoplasm from 1999-2009. Of these, 254 (22.9%) patients were also captured by the surgical database, whereas 853 (77.1%) patients were only in the HIS-linked data set. Manual review of the HIS-only group demonstrated that 45.0% of patients were without identifiable pancreatic pathology, suggesting erroneous capture, whereas 36.3% of patients were consistent with pancreatic neoplasm and 18.7% with other pancreatic pathology. Of the 394 patients identified by the surgical database, 254 (64.5%) patients were captured by HIS, whereas 140 (35.5%) patients were not. Manual review of patients only captured by the surgical database demonstrated 85.9% with pancreatic neoplasm and 14.1% with other pancreatic pathology. Finally, review of the 254 patient overlap demonstrated that 80.3% of patients had pancreatic neoplasm and 19.7% had other pancreatic pathology.
CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that cautious interpretation of administrative data rely only on ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes and clinical correlation through previously validated mechanisms.
Keywords
UMCCTS funding
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.jss.2013.10.036
Source
Arous EJ, McDade TP, Smith JK, Ng SC, Sullivan ME, Zottola RJ, Ranauro PJ, Shah SA, Whalen GF, Tseng JF. Electronic medical record: research tool for pancreatic cancer? J Surg Res. 2014 Apr;187(2):466-70. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2013.10.036. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of surgical research
Related Resources
PubMed ID
24326179
Repository Citation
Arous EJ, McDade TP, Smith JK, Ng SC, Sullivan ME, Zottola RJ, Ranauro PJ, Shah SA, Whalen GF, Tseng JF. (2014). Electronic medical record: research tool for pancreatic cancer. UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science Supported Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2013.10.036. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/umccts_pubs/19
Comments
Edward Arous participated in this study as a medical student as part of the Senior Scholars research program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.