Title
An Empirical Study for Impacts of Measurement Errors on EHR based Association Studies.
Abstract
Over the last decade, Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems have been increasingly implemented at US hospitals. Despite their great potential, the complex and uneven nature of clinical documentation and data quality brings additional challenges for analyzing EHR data. A critical challenge is the information bias due to the measurement errors in outcome and covariates. We conducted empirical studies to quantify the impacts of the information bias on association study. Specifically, we designed our simulation studies based on the characteristics of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network. Through simulation studies, we quantified the loss of power due to misclassifications in case ascertainment and measurement errors in covariate status extraction, with respect to different levels of misclassification rates, disease prevalence, and covariate frequencies. These empirical findings can inform investigators for better understanding of the potential power loss due to misclassification and measurement errors under a variety of conditions in EHR based association studies.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
AMIA
Data mining,Psychology,Genetic association,Empirical research,Observational error
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
2016
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Duan144.90
Ming Cao22343249.61
Yonghui Wu3106572.78
jing huang43716.25
Joshua C. Denny593297.43
Hua Xu632332.99
Yong Chen7750118.44