Shelley Rusincovitch

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · April 1, 2017 OBJECTIVE: We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of 8 electronic health record (EHR)-based phenotypes for diabetes mellitus against gold-standard American Diabetes Association (ADA) diagnostic criteria via chart review by clinical experts. MATERIALS ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using electronic health record data for substance use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment among adults with type 2 diabetes: Design of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · January 2016 BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act encourages healthcare systems to integrate behavioral and medical healthcare, as well as to employ electronic health records (EHRs) for health information exchange and quality improvement. Pragmatic research paradigms th ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Substance use and mental diagnoses among adults with and without type 2 diabetes: Results from electronic health records data.

Journal Article Drug Alcohol Depend · November 1, 2015 BACKGROUND: Comorbid diabetes and substance use diagnoses (SUD) represent a hazardous combination, both in terms of healthcare cost and morbidity. To date, there is limited information about the association of SUD and related mental disorders with type 2 d ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Prevalence and Access of Secondary Source Medication Data: Evaluation of the Southeastern Diabetes Initiative (SEDI).

Journal Article AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · January 2015 Medication non-adherence is a major public health issue, and measuring non-adherence is a crucial step toward improving it. A paucity of retrievable data prevents researchers from effectively measuring, tracking and sharing outcomes on medication managemen ... Cite

Modular design, application architecture, and usage of a self-service model for enterprise data delivery: the Duke Enterprise Data Unified Content Explorer (DEDUCE).

Journal Article Journal of biomedical informatics · December 2014 PurposeData generated in the care of patients are widely used to support clinical research and quality improvement, which has hastened the development of self-service query tools. User interface design for such tools, execution of query activity, ... Full text Cite

Clinical research informatics and electronic health record data.

Journal Article Yearbook of medical informatics · August 2014 ObjectivesThe goal of this survey is to discuss the impact of the growing availability of electronic health record (EHR) data on the evolving field of Clinical Research Informatics (CRI), which is the union of biomedical research and informatics.< ... Full text Cite

Electronic health records based phenotyping in next-generation clinical trials: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory.

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · December 2013 Widespread sharing of data from electronic health records and patient-reported outcomes can strengthen the national capacity for conducting cost-effective clinical trials and allow research to be embedded within routine care delivery. While pragmatic clini ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of phenotype definitions for diabetes mellitus.

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · December 2013 OBJECTIVE: This study compares the yield and characteristics of diabetes cohorts identified using heterogeneous phenotype definitions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Inclusion criteria from seven diabetes phenotype definitions were translated into query algorithms ... Full text Link to item Cite

Missing signposts on the roadmap to quality: a call to improve medication adherence indicators in data collection for population research.

Journal Article Front Pharmacol · 2013 PURPOSE: Poor adherence to prescribed medicines is associated with increased rates of poor outcomes, including hospitalization, serious adverse events, and death, and is also associated with increased healthcare costs. However, current approaches to evalua ... Full text Link to item Cite