Understanding and detecting defects in healthcare administration data: Toward higher data quality to better support healthcare operations and decisions
Author(s) -
Zhang Yili,
Güneş Koru
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocz201
Subject(s) - medicaid , data quality , health care , computer science , quality (philosophy) , data science , taxonomy (biology) , syntax , data collection , artificial intelligence , operations management , engineering , statistics , political science , metric (unit) , philosophy , botany , mathematics , epistemology , law , biology
Development of systematic approaches for understanding and assessing data quality is becoming increasingly important as the volume and utilization of health data steadily increases. In this study, a taxonomy of data defects was developed and utilized when automatically detecting defects to assess Medicaid data quality maintained by one of the states in the United States.
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