Josephine Elia, Kathleen Pajer, Raghuram Prasad, Andres Pumariega, Mitchell Maltenfort, Levon Utidjian, Elizabeth Shenkman, Kelly Kelleher, Suchitra Rao, Peter A Margolis, Dimitri A Christakis, Antonio Y Hardan, Rachel Ballard, Christopher B Forrest
BACKGROUND: Electronic health records (EHRs) data provide an opportunity to collect patient information rapidly, efficiently and at scale. National collaborative research networks, such as PEDSnet, aggregate EHRs data across institutions, enabling rapid identification of pediatric disease cohorts and generating new knowledge for medical conditions. To date, aggregation of EHR data has had limited applications in advancing our understanding of mental health (MH) conditions, in part due to the limited research in clinical informatics, necessary for the translation of EHR data to child mental health research...
September 14, 2023: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health