A data preparation framework for cleaning electronic health records and assessing cleaning outcomes for secondary analysis

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Highlights：

• A new data preparation framework is proposed for secondary analysis of EHR.

• The framework can guide EHR data quality assessment and cleaning workflows.

• It further provides a scheme to assess and validate cleaning methods and outcomes.

• A case study on a hip-fracture readmission analysis demonstrates its effectiveness.

摘要

•A new data preparation framework is proposed for secondary analysis of EHR.•The framework can guide EHR data quality assessment and cleaning workflows.•It further provides a scheme to assess and validate cleaning methods and outcomes.•A case study on a hip-fracture readmission analysis demonstrates its effectiveness.

论文关键词：Healthcare,Electronic health records (EHR),Secondary analysis,Data quality,Data cleaning

论文评审过程：Received 3 May 2022, Revised 9 August 2022, Accepted 19 September 2022, Available online 24 September 2022, Version of Record 7 October 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2022.102130