Open AccessKnowledge Management and Informatics Considerations for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Author(s) -
Peter J. Embí,
Courtney Hebert,
Gayle M. Gordillo,
Kelly J. Kelleher,
Philip R. O. Payne
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0b013e31829b1de1
Subject(s) - informatics , sociotechnical system , knowledge management , computer science , health informatics , data science , leverage (statistics) , data management , health administration informatics , best practice , reuse , business informatics , engineering informatics , management science , medicine , political science , data mining , engineering , nursing , waste management , law , public health , machine learning
As clinical data are increasingly collected and stored electronically, their potential use for comparative effectiveness research (CER) grows. Despite this promise, challenges face those wishing to leverage such data. In this paper we aim to enumerate some of the knowledge management and informatics issues common to such data reuse.