Assessing the feasibility of extracting clinical information to create quality indicators from primary healthcare practice EMRs

Fred Burge; Beverley Lawson; Kristine Van Aarsen; Wayne Putnam

doi:10.12927/hcq.2013.23471

Assessing the feasibility of extracting clinical information to create quality indicators from primary healthcare practice EMRs

Healthc Q. 2013;16(3):34-41. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2013.23471.

Authors

Fred Burge¹, Beverley Lawson, Kristine Van Aarsen, Wayne Putnam

Affiliation

¹ Fred Burge, MD, FCFP, MSc, is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

PMID: 24034775
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2013.23471

Abstract

In 2011, a panel of primary healthcare (PHC) providers in Nova Scotia rated 19 of 35 selected Canadian Institute for Health Information (2006) clinical quality indicators (QIs) as "acceptable." In this study, the authors explored the feasibility of extracting electronic medical record (EMR) data required to create these PHC QI measures.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Checklist
Electronic Health Records*
Feasibility Studies
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Nova Scotia
Primary Health Care*
Quality Indicators, Health Care / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

MOP-86540/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada