Projects

Our Projects


Recent Project:
Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortium

Theme 1: Administrative Data Features

  · Project 1:  A compendium of meta-data.
  · Project 2:  International disease coding systems.
  · Project 3:  Validity of administrative data for clinical conditions.

Theme 2: Optimization of Administrative Data

  · Project 4:  Shadow billing and data completeness.
  · Project 5:  Measurement error in diagnostic codes.
  · Project 6:  Interventions for physicians, billing staff and coders.

Theme 3: Emerging Methods for EHR Data

  · Project 7:   Development of methodologies to transform free text EHR.
  · Project 8:   Risk adjustment using laboratory and vital sign EHR data.
  · Project 9:   Assessment of symptom collection methods in primary care.
  · Project 10:  Ethical and legal issues in EHR research.

Our 5-year research program consists of 10 projects organized around 3 themes.