Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2008
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460646
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"Garbage in, garbage out"

Abstract: This paper presents an interpretive case study on extraction of disease surveillance data from Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) in primary care. The General Practitioners (GPs) use of the EPR system, and the effect this has on data content, such as symptoms reported by patients and diagnoses reported by GPs, is discussed. The paper contributes to greater understanding of sociotechnical issues related to disease surveillance, and contains illustrative examples of many issues important to CSCW. This includes ho… Show more

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“…However, the amount of valuable resources, with their potential to improve the clinical decisions and quality of healthcare settings, compounds the data quality issues specified in Table 1. Our findings contrast with prior notions blaming poor data quality on data entry (Grimes, 2010;Johansen et al, 2008). Challenges in healthcare data quality are much more complex, with the main issues summarized in Table 1.…”
Section: Rq1contrasting
confidence: 99%
“…However, the amount of valuable resources, with their potential to improve the clinical decisions and quality of healthcare settings, compounds the data quality issues specified in Table 1. Our findings contrast with prior notions blaming poor data quality on data entry (Grimes, 2010;Johansen et al, 2008). Challenges in healthcare data quality are much more complex, with the main issues summarized in Table 1.…”
Section: Rq1contrasting
confidence: 99%
“…Disease surveillance denotes a practice of ongoing data collection, analysis and dissemination for the purposes of implementing and evaluating public health policies and practices [31]. Some work in disease surveillance in CSCW has been on developing systems using data sources such as mobile data to predict flu dynamics [17], evaluating the potential of public resources such as Wikipedia texts to measure global disease [37], or studying sociotechnical issues related to data collection in hospitals for surveillance purposes [25]. There is also extensive CSCW research on health care, which is focused mostly on clinical work and how it is transformed by computers [20].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This type of work is mainly concerned with the act of data collection, which differs from passive disease surveillance (c.f. [25]) which makes use of data obtained in hospitals or health facilities from health-seeking patients.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If data is to be repurposed from existing systems, there must be clear understanding of its structure as well as the data management practices used to maintain the data [10]. Deviation from intended data management practices, particularly those hardened into systems, can make repurposing data difficult as information capture no longer adheres to expected norms.…”
Section: Data Lifecycle In Humanitarian Responsementioning
confidence: 99%