Rational Design of a Computer-based Decision Support System for Primary Care Settings
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Setting: The COMPETE Study (Computerization of Medical Practices for the Enhancement of Therapeutic Effectiveness) is an electronic medical record (EMR) project based in a primary care setting in Southern Ontario, Canada. The Clinical Research database consists of data extracted from the EMR as described below in the Methods section. Interpretation of the data has proven challenging due to factors such as variability in physician recording behavior, ambiguities posed by data entered as text and discrepancies between administrative and EMR data.
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