Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Let’s say you are interested in measuring the relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and depression. In many cases, one would use electronic health records data and conduct a logistic regression with depression as the dependent variable and T2DM (potentially along with demographics and other comorbidities) as the independent variables. However, the use of…
Electronic health records (EHR) are moderns marvels. The ability to communicate and safely store patient information has the potential to greatly improve quality of care. Implementing EHR, however, is not costless. There is of course the cost of the EHR system itself and the cost of training staff on how to use the EHR system.…
Electronic health records (EHR) are supposed to improve quality. While EHRs certainly are highly useful for information sharing, they may have adverse consequences. One issue may be that EHRs may induce fatigue in physicians and sap their needed energy/concentration away from their primary task: caring for patients. To test whether EHRs increase physician fatigue and…