Erschienen in:
01.09.2012 | Editorials
Monitoring artifacts and large database research: what you don't know could hurt you
verfasst von:
Matthew Martin, MD, Sachin Kheterpal, MD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 9/2012
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Excerpt
During the last two decades we have witnessed an exponential growth in information technology. Although anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) have been around for more than 30 years, the transition from paper records to electronic medical records has been slow.
1 However, recent data demonstrate a rapid rise in adoption of electronic records at academic medical centres.
2 As AIMS have grown in popularity, so too has research that uses automated electronic data at its epicentre. Retrospective observational studies are no longer a rarity in peer-reviewed journals. In fact, it is often difficult to find a leading anesthesiology journal without this type of clinical research. In this issue, Kool
et al. attempt to examine the prevalence of artifacts in physiologic data stored by AIMS.
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