Recovering missing electronic health record mortality data with a machine learning-enhanced data linkage process.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop a continual process for linking more comprehensive external mortality data to electronic health records (EHRs) for a large healthcare system, which can serve as a template for other healthcare systems.

Authors

  • John P Powers
    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
  • Samyuktha Nandhakumar
    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
  • Sofia Z Dard
    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
  • Paul Kovach
    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
  • Peter J Leese
    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.