Making Sense of Big Data to Improve Perioperative Care: Learning Health Systems and the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group
Highlights
- Perioperative electronic health records (EHRs) have become ubiquitous
- Opportunities for EHR research are counterbalanced by limitations to data quality
- Strategies exist to mitigate shortcomings of heterogeneous EHR data
- Quality improvement is a critical counterpart to research in a learning health system