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- Title
The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Toolkit: A Framework to Support Automated Clinical Records-based Outcomes Assessment and Performance Measurement Research.
- Authors
D'Avolio, Leonard W.; Bui, Alex A. T.
- Abstract
The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Toolkit (COAT) was created through a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles and Brigham and Women's Hospital to address the challenge of gathering, formatting, and abstracting data for clinical outcomes and performance measurement research. COAT provides a framework for the development of information pipelines to transform clinical data from its original structured, semi-structured, and unstructured forms to a standardized format amenable to statistical analysis. This system includes a collection of clinical data structures, reusable utilities for information analysis and transformation, and a graphical user interface through which pipelines can be controlled and their results audited by nontechnical users. The COAT architecture is presented, as well as two case studies of current implementations in the domain of prostate cancer outcomes assessment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH outcome assessment; UCLA Medical Center; MEDICAL informatics; COMPUTERS in medical care; EVALUATION of medical care
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 3, p333
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1197/jamia.M2550