Comparing Medical Record Abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study to pooled rates identified in the data quality literature
Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee, Jessica Snowden, Anita C. Walden, Alan E. Simon, Lori A. Devlin, Leslie W. Young, Meredith N. Zozus · 2024
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Maryam Y Garza and ten co-authors test whether a strict quality framework keeps hand-copied medical data honest, in this 2024 study. Medical record abstraction, copying chart details into research databases, feeds many studies yet quietly accumulates errors. Formal quality control during the copying is rarely used, and its effect is seldom measured.
Their observational study embedded a standardized quality framework from the start. The team then compared its error rates against pooled rates from published abstraction studies lacking such frameworks, found through a systematic literature search. Rates from both sides were pooled with inverse-variance methods for a fair comparison. The paper asks a practical question: does policing the copying, while it happens, actually leave cleaner data than checking afterward or not at all?
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee, Jessica Snowden, Anita C. Walden, Alan E. Simon, Lori A. Devlin, Leslie W. Young, Meredith N. Zozus |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |