Open Access<p>Combining Inpatient and Outpatient Data for Diagnosis of Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Using Electronic Health Records: A Validation Study</p>
Author(s) -
Orna Reges,
Hagay Weinberg,
Moshe Hoshen,
Philip Greenland,
Hana'a Rayyan-Assi,
Meytal Avgil Tsadok,
Asaf Bachrach,
Ran D. Balicer,
Morton Leibowitz,
Moti Haim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s230677
Subject(s) - medicine , gold standard (test) , diagnosis code , atrial fibrillation , medical diagnosis , outpatient clinic , chart , emergency medicine , data mining , computer science , radiology , statistics , population , mathematics , environmental health
Previous studies have demonstrated differences in atrial fibrillation (AF) detection based on data from hospital sources without data from outpatient sources. We investigated the detection of documented diagnoses of non-valvular AF in a large Israeli health-care organization using electronic health record data from multiple sources.