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Acquisition and use of clinical data for audit and research
Author(s) -
MRCP Jeremy Wyatt DM
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.1995.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - audit , data quality , clinical audit , quality (philosophy) , quality management , clinical research , data collection , data management , data science , medicine , computer science , data mining , management system , operations management , business , accounting , engineering , pathology , metric (unit) , philosophy , epistemology , statistics , mathematics
Acquisition of adequate patient data for clinical management is hard enough, but higher quality patient data are needed for clinical audit and research. This article discusses some of the problems of using routine clinical data for audit and research, aspects of data quality, sources of audit or research data and their problems, methods for improving data quality, the benefits and problems of computer‐based systems and current trends in the capture and processing of clinical data.