Multi-Institutional Sharing of Electronic Health Record Data to Assess Childhood Obesity.

To evaluate the validity of multi-institutional electronic health record (EHR) data sharing for surveillance and study of childhood obesity.We conducted a non-concurrent cohort study of 528,340 children with outpatient visits to six pediatric academic medical centers during 2007-08, with sufficient...

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Main Authors: L Charles Bailey, David E Milov, Kelly Kelleher, Michael G Kahn, Mark Del Beccaro, Feliciano Yu, Thomas Richards, Christopher B Forrest
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3688837?pdf=render