Clinical data quality problems and countermeasure for real world study

Abstract

Real world study (RWS) has become a hotspot for clinical research. Data quality plays a vital role in research achievement and other clinical research fields. In this paper, the common quality problems in the RWS of traditional Chinese medicine are discussed, and a countermeasure is proposed.

Keywords

real world study / traditional Chinese medicine / clinical and research information sharing system / data quality problem / data quality control

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the National Special Fund Projects for Traditional Chinese Medicine (201207001) and National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, digital information system research and development of traditional Chinese medicine, 2012AA02A609).

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