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Use of electronic health record data from diverse primary care practices to identify and characterize patients' prescribed common medications.


ABSTRACT: We use prescription of statin medications and prescription of warfarin to explore the capacity of electronic health record data to (1) describe cohorts of patients prescribed these medications and (2) identify cohorts of patients with evidence of adverse events related to prescription of these medications. This study was conducted in the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN)., a network of primary care practices across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho DataQUEST, an electronic data-sharing infrastructure. We used electronic health record data to describe cohorts of patients prescribed statin or warfarin medications and reported the proportions of patients with adverse events. Among the 35,445 active patients, 1745 received at least one statin prescription and 301 received at least one warfarin prescription. Only 3?percent of statin patients had evidence of myopathy; 51 patients (17% of those prescribed warfarin) had a bleeding complication. Primary-care electronic health record data can effectively be used to identify patients prescribed specific medications and patients potentially experiencing medication adverse events.

SUBMITTER: Cole AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6557686 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Use of electronic health record data from diverse primary care practices to identify and characterize patients' prescribed common medications.

Cole Allison M AM   Stephens Kari A KA   West Imara I   Keppel Gina A GA   Thummel Ken K   Baldwin Laura-Mae LM  

Health informatics journal 20181210 1


We use prescription of statin medications and prescription of warfarin to explore the capacity of electronic health record data to (1) describe cohorts of patients prescribed these medications and (2) identify cohorts of patients with evidence of adverse events related to prescription of these medications. This study was conducted in the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN)., a network of primary care practices across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho DataQUEST, an elec  ...[more]

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