Assuntos
Fibrilação Atrial/sangue , Fibrilação Atrial/cirurgia , Segurança Computacional/legislação & jurisprudência , Assistência ao Paciente/métodos , Apêndice Atrial/cirurgia , Fibrilação Atrial/etiologia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Eletivos/métodos , União Europeia/organização & administração , Humanos , Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido , Assistência ao Paciente/normas , Direitos do Paciente/legislação & jurisprudência , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/epidemiologia , Privacidade/legislação & jurisprudência , Ensaios Clínicos Controlados Aleatórios como Assunto , Estudos Retrospectivos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/prevenção & controleRESUMO
As a result of increasing digitisation of medical record keeping, electronic health records (EHRs) are an attractive source for data reuse. However, such record-based research is still suffering from poor quality of data stored in EHRs. Lack of consent for reuse of data also plays an impeding role, especially in retrospective record-based research. That said, increasing cooperation between healthcare institutions and current attention for EHR organisation also offer opportunities for record-based research. Patient data can be recorded in more standardised ways and in increasingly harmonised EHRs. In addition, if healthcare institutions were to establish a generic consent procedure - preferably with national scope - the potential of EHRs for scientific research could be exploited in considerably better ways.