Evaluating Population Coverage in a Regional Distributed Data Network: Implications for Electronic Health Record-Based Public Health Surveillance.

CONCLUSION: The DDN population is not a random sample of the regional adult population; it is influenced by health care use patterns and organizations participating in the DDN. Strengths and limitations of DDNs complement those of survey-based approaches. The regional DDN is a promising public health surveillance tool. PMID: 32791022 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Reports - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research