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Using Electronic Health Records To Generate Phenotypes For Research

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Pendergrass, Sarah A., Crawford, Dana C.·2019·Current Protocols in Human Genetics

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Electronic health records contain patient‐level data collected during and for clinical care. Data within the electronic health record include diagnostic billing codes, procedure codes, vital signs, laboratory test results, clinical imaging, and physician notes. With repeated clinic visits, these data are longitudinal, providing important information on disease development, progression, and response to treatment or intervention strategies. The near universal adoption of electronic health records nationally has the potential to provide population‐scale real‐world clinical data accessible for biomedical research, including genetic association studies. For this research potential to be realized, high‐quality research‐grade variables must be extracted from these clinical data warehouses. We describe here common and emerging electronic phenotyping approaches applied to electronic health records, as well as current limitations of both the approaches and the biases associated with these clinically collected data that impact their use in research. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • The rich EHR data within All of Us can be used to identify the incidence of chronic conditions across the human phenome.

    “The rich EHR data within AoURP can be used to identify the incidence of chronic conditions across the human phenome9.”

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    The Commentary’s “Phenotype Algorithm Development” section describes using EHR data to classify disease status across a data warehouse, including phenome-wide studies. It does not establish that All of Us EHR data can identify the incidence of chronic conditions; identifying case status is not the same as measuring new cases over time. No page number was provided for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Pendergrass, S. A., & Crawford, D. C.
Affiliations
  • Biomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Geisinger Research Rockville Maryland
  • Case Western Reserve University (US)
Corresponding author
Crawford, Dana C.
Venue
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-12-05
Volume
100
Issue
1
Pages
e80-e80
ISSN
  • 1934-8258 (ISSN-L)
  • 1934-8266
OpenAlex
W2902537416
Cited by
120
References
124
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 4
FWCI
4.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Protocols in Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (UL1TR002548, UL1 TR000439)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
  • National Institutes of Health (1R01 GM126249)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
Keywords
electronic health records, electronic phenotyping, phenotypes, genetic association studies, real-world clinical data, data extraction, data quality, longitudinal clinical data, clinical data warehouse
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Humans, Phenotype, Data Mining, Electronic Health Records

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