Optimizing Research in Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids with Development of a Computable Phenotype for Use with Electronic Health Records

Symptomatic uterine fibroids, due to menorrhagia, pelvic pain, bulk symptoms or infertility, are a source of substantial morbidity for reproductive-age women. Comparing Treatment Options for Uterine Fibroids (COMPARE-UF) is a multi-site registry study to compare the effectiveness of hormonal or surgical fibroid treatments on women ’s perceptions of their quality of life. Electronic health record (EHR)-based algorithms are able to identify large numbers of women with fibroids, but additional work is needed to develop EHR algorithms that can identify women with symptomatic fibroids to optimize fibroid research.
Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Source Type: research