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VHA Corporate Data Warehouse height and weight data:
opportunities and challenges for health services
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| Article Type: | Brief article |
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Health care industry
(Information management) Data warehousing (Usage) Administrative agencies (Information management) |
| Author: | Noel, Polly Hitchcock |
| Pub Date: | 12/30/2010 |
| Publication: | Name: Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development Publisher: Department of Veterans Affairs Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Health Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs ISSN: 0748-7711 |
| Issue: | Date: Dec 30, 2010 Source Volume: 47 Source Issue: 8 |
| Topic: | Event Code: 260 General services Computer Subject: Health care industry; Data warehousing/data mining; Company systems management |
| Organization: | Government Agency: United States. Veterans Health Administration |
| Geographic: | Geographic Scope: United States Geographic Code: 1USA United States |
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| Accession Number: | 246450389 |
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[GRAPHIC OMITTED] The Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) is a potentially important new data source within the Veterans Health Administration. This article describes an administrative project and a research study that examined the variability and reliability of weight and height data within the CDW and compares the data with the regional warehouse data. Our work suggests that the CDW is a generally reliable source of weight and height data. Challenges include relatively fewer recorded heights than weights and biologically implausible values and variation, which may reflect measurement or data entry errors. We discuss strategies to minimize the effect of these errors and policy changes that could improve data quality. Polly Hitchcock Noel, PhD, et al. |
| Gale Copyright: | Copyright 2010 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. |