A distributed analysis approach for pharmacovigilance data from electronic medical records in German university hospitals: the POLAR_MI ETL Pipeline

Abstract Background The cooperative project “POLypharmacy, drug interActions and Risks” (POLAR_MI) of the Medical Informatics Initiative Germany (MII) aimed at detecting medication-related risks attributed to polymedication in adult patients from German university hospitals. Here, we report technolo...

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Published in:	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Main Authors:	Miriam Kesselmeier, Torsten Thalheim, Florian Schmidt, Thomas Peschel, Julia Palm, Alexander Strübing, André Medek, Jens Przybilla, Anna Maria Wermund, Renke Maas, Steffen Härterich, Louisa Redeker, Martin Federbusch, Daniel Steinbach, Jan Gewehr, Marcus Wurlitzer, Andrea Riedel, Frank Meineke, Daniel Neumann, André Scherag, Markus Loeffler, on behalf of POLAR_MI
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2026-06-01
Subjects:	Distributed analysis Distributed computation Meta-analysis Data integration ETL Extract transform load
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-026-03550-w