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Frontiers of Medicine

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Front. Med.    2014, Vol. 8 Issue (3) : 352-357    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-014-0351-1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Clinical data quality problems and countermeasure for real world study
Runshun Zhang1,Yinghui Wang1,Baoyan Liu2,*(),Guangli Song1,Xuezhong Zhou3,Shizhen Fan4,Xishui Pan4
1. Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China
2. China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
3. School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
4. Beijing Fanglue Medical Information Co., Ltd., Beijing 100053, China
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Abstract

Real world study (RWS) has become a hotspot for clinical research. Data quality plays a vital role in research achievement and other clinical research fields. In this paper, the common quality problems in the RWS of traditional Chinese medicine are discussed, and a countermeasure is proposed.

Keywords real world study      traditional Chinese medicine      clinical and research information sharing system      data quality problem      data quality control     
Corresponding Author(s): Baoyan Liu   
Online First Date: 15 August 2014    Issue Date: 09 October 2014
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Runshun Zhang,Yinghui Wang,Baoyan Liu, et al. Clinical data quality problems and countermeasure for real world study[J]. Front. Med., 2014, 8(3): 352-357.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fmd/EN/Y2014/V8/I3/352
Fig.1  Flow chart of TCM RWS quality control.
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