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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Methods Inf Med 2023; 62(S 01): e1-e9
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760238
Original Article for a Focus Theme

Targeted Data Quality Analysis for a Clinical Decision Support System for SIRS Detection in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients

Erik Tute
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
,
Marcel Mast
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
,
Antje Wulff
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
2   Big Data in Medicine, Department of Health Services Research, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
› Author Affiliations Funding Development of the used methods and tools was partly done within project “HiGHmed” (German MI-Initiative), funded by BMBF (Grant No. 01ZZ1802C). This work was funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (Grant No. 2520DAT66A).
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Abstract

Background Data quality issues can cause false decisions of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). Analyzing local data quality has the potential to prevent data quality-related failure of CDSS adoption.

Objectives To define a shareable set of applicable measurement methods (MMs) for a targeted data quality assessment determining the suitability of local data for our CDSS.

Methods We derived task-specific MMs using four approaches: (1) a GUI-based data quality analysis using the open source tool openCQA. (2) Analyzing cases of known false CDSS decisions. (3) Data-driven learning on MM-results. (4) A systematic check to find blind spots in our set of MMs based on the HIDQF data quality framework. We expressed the derived data quality-related knowledge about the CDSS using the 5-tuple-formalization for MMs.

Results We identified some task-specific dataset characteristics that a targeted data quality assessment for our use case should inspect. Altogether, we defined 394 MMs organized in 13 data quality knowledge bases.

Conclusions We have created a set of shareable, applicable MMs that can support targeted data quality assessment for CDSS-based systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) detection in critically ill, pediatric patients. With the demonstrated approaches for deriving and expressing task-specific MMs, we intend to help promoting targeted data quality assessment as a commonly recognized usual part of research on data-consuming application systems in health care.

Keywords

information - data quality - aggregation - knowledge bases - clinical decision support systems

Ethical Considerations

All methods were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All study participants, their parents, or legal guardians gave written informed consent. Both CADDIE and ELISE were approved by the Ethics Committee of Hannover Medical School (No. 7804_BO_S_2018 and No. 9891_BO_S_2021). All authors had a valid permission (Datenzugriffsvereinbarung) to work with the dataset.


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Publication History

Received: 30 June 2022

Accepted: 21 October 2022

Article published online:
11 January 2023

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