{"title":"Garbage In, Garbage Out? Negative Impact of Physiological Waveform Artifacts in a Hospital Clinical Data Warehouse.","authors":"Frederick H Kuo, Mohamed A Rehman, Luis M Ahumada","doi":"10.1007/s10916-024-02128-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals around the world are deploying increasingly advanced systems to collect and store high-resolution physiological patient data for quality improvement and research. However, data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and contextual validity remain issues. This report highlights a data artifact known as waveform clipping in our hospital's physiological data capture system that went unnoticed for years, limiting data analysis and delaying several research projects. We aim to raise awareness in the medical informatics community about the importance of careful system setup, ongoing data validation, and close cooperation between clinicians and data scientists.</p>","PeriodicalId":16338,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"109"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Medical Systems","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-024-02128-1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hospitals around the world are deploying increasingly advanced systems to collect and store high-resolution physiological patient data for quality improvement and research. However, data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and contextual validity remain issues. This report highlights a data artifact known as waveform clipping in our hospital's physiological data capture system that went unnoticed for years, limiting data analysis and delaying several research projects. We aim to raise awareness in the medical informatics community about the importance of careful system setup, ongoing data validation, and close cooperation between clinicians and data scientists.
期刊介绍：
Journal of Medical Systems provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the increasingly extensive applications of new systems techniques and methods in hospital clinic and physician''s office administration; pathology radiology and pharmaceutical delivery systems; medical records storage and retrieval; and ancillary patient-support systems. The journal publishes informative articles essays and studies across the entire scale of medical systems from large hospital programs to novel small-scale medical services. Education is an integral part of this amalgamation of sciences and selected articles are published in this area. Since existing medical systems are constantly being modified to fit particular circumstances and to solve specific problems the journal includes a special section devoted to status reports on current installations.
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