Khalid O Yusuf, Irina Chaplinskaya-Sobol, Anne Schoneberg, Sabine Hanss, Heike Valentin, Bettina Lorenz-Depiereux, Stefan Hansch, Karin Fiedler, Margarete Scherer, Shimita Sikdar, Olga Miljukov, Jens-Peter Reese, Patricia Wagner, Isabel Bröhl, Ramsia Geisler, Jörg J Vehreschild, Sabine Blaschke, Carla Bellinghausen, Milena Milovanovic, Dagmar Krefting
INTRODUCTION: Contradiction is a relevant data quality indicator to evaluate the plausibility of interdependent health data items. However, while contradiction assessment is achieved using domain-established contradictory dependencies, recent studies have shown the necessity for additional requirements to reach conclusive contradiction findings. For example, the oral or rectal methods used in measuring the body temperature will influence the thresholds of fever definition. The availability of this required information as explicit data items must be guaranteed during study design...
September 12, 2023: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics