Reusing Electronic Patient Data for Dental Clinical Research: A Review of Current Status

Conclusions Dental research reusing electronic patient data is nascent but accelerating. Future EDR design should focus on enhancing data quality, begin to integrate research data collection and implement interoperability with electronic medical records to facilitate oralsystemic investigations. Clinical significance Measuring and improving the quality of dental care requires that we begin to reuse electronic patient data collected in practice for clinical research. Practice data can potentially serve as a useful complement to data collected in traditional research studies (Source: Journal of Dentistry)
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