Publications
Indicators of missing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) discharge summaries: A retrospective study on data from a large Canadian cohort (2021)
Natalie Wiebe, Yuan Xu, Abdel Aziz Shaheen, Catherine Eastwood, Bastien Boussat and Hude Quan
Submitted and under review
Abstract 246: Validating the Accuracy of Routine Electrocardiogram Arrhythmia Diagnosis From an Electronic Repository (2019)
Hongwei Liu, Reid Collins, Robert J Miller, Danielle A Southern, Bryan J Har, Matthew T James, Stephen B Wilton
Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: an exploratory study (2019)
B.Cord Lethebe, Tyler Williamson, Stephanie Garies, Kerry McBrien, Charles Leduc, Sonia Butalia, Boglarka Soos, Marta Shaw, and Neil Drummond
Identification of validated case definitions for medical conditions used in primary care electronic medical record databases (2018)
Kerry A. McBrien, Sepideh Souri, Nicola E. Symonds, Azin Rouhi, Brendan C. Lethebe, Tyler S. Williamson, Stephanie Garies, Richard Birtwhistle, Hude Quan, Gabriel E. Fabreau and Paul E. Ronksley
Unlocking the Potential of Electronic Health Records for Health Research (2020)
Seungwon Lee, Yuan Xu, Adam G. D’Souza, Elliot A. Martin, Chelsea Doktorchik, Zilong Zhang and Hude Quan
Featured Study
Unlocking the Potential of EHR for Health Research
We are utilizing SCM EHR and other data to develop and validate case definition algorithms, ultimately improving research methods such as risk adjustment.
Predictive Analytics (Machine Learning & Data Mining)
Predicting death by suicide following an .... with administrative health care system data and machine learning (2020)
Michael Sanderson, Andrew G.M. Bulloch, JianLi Wang, Kimberly G. Williams, Tyler Williamson and Scott B. Pattern
Predicting death by suicide using administrative health care system data: Can recurrent neural network, one-dimensional convolutional neural ...(2020)
Michael Sanderson, Andrew G.M. Bulloch, JianLi Wang, Tyler Williamson and Scott B. Pattern
Artificial intelligence (AI) and cancer prevention: ... control programming needs to be explored ... COMPASS (2019)
Scott T. Leatherdale and Joon Lee
Data Visualization
Data changes everything: Challenges and opportunities in data visualization design handoff
Jagoda Walny, Christian Frisson, Mieka West, Doris Kosminsky, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale and Wesley Willett
Information Visualization and Proxemics: Design Opportunities and Empirical Findings
Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen, Yonas Sahlemariam Haile, Søren Knudsen and Kasper Hornbæk.
Comparing ICD-data Across Countries: A Case for Visualization
Lucia Otero Varela, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale, Catherine Eastwood and Hude Quan.
Dynamic Visual Analytics for Elicitation Meetings with ELICA
Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Munib Rahman, Abdullah Cheema, Vincenzo Gervasi, Didar Zowghi, and Ken Barker.
PADE: Supporting Collaborative Visual Analysis of Patient Administrative Systems Data with a Large Touch Display System
Søren Knudsen and Kasper Hornbæk.
Visualizing Density of Healthcare Workers Across Time and Countries
Andie Green-Harrison, Søren Knudsen and Sheelagh Carpendale.
Data Quality Measurement
Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review
Natalie Wiebe, Lucia O. Varela, Daniel J. Niven, Paul E. Ronksley, Nicolas Iragorri and Hude Quan
Evaluation of interventions to improve electronic health record documentation within the inpatient setting: a protocol for a systematic review
Lucia O. Varela, Natalie Wiebe, Daniel J. Niven, Paul E. Ronksley, Nicolas Iragorri, Helen Lee Robertson and Hude Quan
Achieving quality primary care data: a description of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network data capture, extraction ... in Alberta
Stephanie Garies, Michael Cummings, Brian Forst, Kerry McBrien, Boglarka Soos, Matt Taylor, Neil Drummond, Donna Manca, Kimberley Duerksen, Hude Quan and Tyler Williamson
Our Resources
Our centre has many in-house resources like Alberta Health Services Analytics and a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre. Bringing these data assets together with the expertise of our team will enable the development of a sustainable, central research institute that can achieve exceedingly quick data access and analytics.
Patient-Oriented Research
Trajectories of perceived social support in acute coronary syndrome
Meng Wang, Colleen M. Norris, Michelle M. Graham, Maria Santana, Zhiying Liang, Oluwagbohunmi Awosoga, Danielle A. Southern, Matthew T. James, Stephen B. Wilton, Hude Quan, Mingshan Lu, William Ghali, Merril Knudtson and Tolulope T. Sajobi
Administrative Data Analysis
Prospective validation and refinement of the APPROACH cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit readmission score
Sanam Verma, Danielle A Southern, Ismail R. Raslan, Colleen M. Norris, Michelle M. Graham, Sean M. Bagshaw, Jayan Nagendran, Todd Maclure, Louise Y. Sun, Wu Dat Chin and Sean van Diepen
Identifying Atrial Fibrillation From 30,000 Feet: Strengths and Weaknesses of Health Administrative Data
Stephen B. Wilton, Hongwei Lui and Danielle A. Southern
A disease-specific comorbidity index for predicting mortality in patients admitted to hospital with a cardiac condition
Lorenzo Azzalini, Malorie Chabot-Blanchet, Danielle A. Southern, Anna Nozza, Stephen B. Wilton, Michelle M. Graham, Guillaume Marquis Gravel, Jean-Pierre Bluteau, Jean-Lucien Rouleau, Marie-Claude Guertin and E. Marc Jolicoeur
Empowering knowledge generation through international data network: the IMeCCHI-DATANETWORK
Lucia O. Varela, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Amy Metcalfe, Pia Kjaer Kristensen, Hongsoo Kim, Raffaele Perego, Rosa Gini and Emanuele Carlini
Challenges Associated with Cross-Jurisdictional Analyses using Administrative Health Data and Primary Care Electronic Medical Records in Canada
Alan Kats, Jennifer Enns, Sabrina T. Wong, Tyler Williamson, Alexander Singer, Kimberlyn McGrail, Jeffery A. Bakal, Carole Taylor and Sandra Peterson
Developing case‐finding algorithms for second events of oropharyngeal cancer using administrative data: A population‐based validation study
Yuan Xu, Shiying Kong, Winson Y. Cheung, May Lynn Quan, Steven C. Nakoneshny and Joseph C. Dort
Development and validation of case-finding algorithms for recurrence of breast cancer using routinely collected administrative data
Yuan Xu, Shiying Kong, Winson Y. Cheung, Antoine Bouchard-Fortier, Joseph C. Dort, Hude Quan, Elizabeth M. Buie, Geoff McKinnon and May Lynn Quan
Association of Levels of Specialized Care With Risk of Premature Mortality in Patients With Epilepsy.
Lowerison M, Josephson CB, Jette N, Sajobi TT, Patten S, Williamson T, Deardon R, Barkema HW, and Wiebe S
Oncocytic subtypes of adrenal cortical carcinoma: Aggressive in appearance yet more indolent in behavior?
Jane Mills, Moosa Khalil, Janice Pasieka, Shiying (Kristine) Kong, Yuan Xu, & Adrian Harvey.
World Health Organization - Collaborating Centre (WHO-CC)
IFHIMA Fosters Planning for ICD-11 Adoption with Global Case Studies
Includes a case study titled "Clinical Coders as Researchers in a Field Trial Testing ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics Coding: A Case Study from Canada" written by Cathy Eastwood (page 23).
Deriving ICD-10 Codes for Patient Safety Indicators for Large-scale Surveillance Using Administrative Hospital Data.
DA Southern, Burnand B, Droesler S, Flemons W, Forster A, Gurevich Y, Harrison J, Quan H, Pincus HA, Romano PS, Sundararajan V, Kostanjsek N, Ghali WA
A World Health Organization field trial assessing a proposed ICD-11 framework for classifying patient safety events
AJ Forster, Burnand B, Droesler S, Gurevich Y, Harrison J, Januel JM, Romano PS, Southern DA, Sundararajan V, Quan H, Vanderloo SE, Pincus HA, Ghali WA.
ICD-11 for quality and safety: overview of the WHO Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group.
Ghali WA, Pincus HA, Southern DA, Brien SE, Romano PS, Burnand B, Drösler SE, Sundararajan V, Moskal L, Forster AJ, Gurevich Y, Quan H, Colin C, Munier WB, Harrison J, Spaeth-Rublee B, Kostanjsek N, Ustün TB.
International variation in the definition of 'main condition' in ICD-coded health data.
Quan H, Moskal L, Forster AJ, Brien S, Walker R, Romano PS, Sundararajan V, Burnand B, Henriksson G, Steinum O, Droesler S, Pincus HA, Ghali WA.
Capturing diagnosis-timing in ICD-coded hospital data: recommendations from the WHO ICD-11 topic advisory group on quality and safety.
Sundararajan V, Romano PS, Quan H, Burnand B, Drösler SE, Brien S, Pincus HA, Ghali WA
Opportunities and challenges for quality and safety applications in ICD-11: an international survey of users of coded health data.
Southern DA, Hall M, White DE, Romano PS, Sundararajan V, Droesler SE, Pincus HA, Ghali WA.
Enhanced capture of healthcare-related harms and injuries in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
Southern DA, Pincus HA, Romano PS, Burnand B, Harrison J, Forster AJ, Moskal L, Quan H, Droesler SE, Sundararajan V, Colin C, Gurevich Y, Brien SE, Kostanjsek N, Üstün B, Ghali WA; World Health Organization ICD-11 Revision Topic Advisory Group on Quality & Safety.
Alberta Real World Evidence Consortium
Retrospective Database Analysis to Estimate Adherence Rates of HIV Patients in Canada
To request supplementary results files, please email chi@ucalgary.ca.