Assessing data quality from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a methodological approach applied to the full blood count blood test

Assessing data quality from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a methodological approach applied to the full blood count blood test

Abstract A Full Blood Count (FBC) is a common blood test including 20 parameters, such as haemoglobin and platelets. FBCs from Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases provide a large sample of anonymised individual patient data and are increasingly used in research. We describe the quality of the F...

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Main Authors: Pradeep S. Virdee, Alice Fuller, Michael Jacobs, Tim Holt, Jacqueline Birks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Big Data
Subjects:
Clinical practice research datalink
Full blood count
Blood test
Data quality
Data validation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40537-020-00375-w

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