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Table 4 Comparison of the Data Inventory with US cardiovascular data fields[18]

From: A European inventory of common electronic health record data elements for clinical trial feasibility

Number of data fields matching data elements of the Data Inventory

Exact match

Data field as value of a data element

No match

History and physical examination elements

8

24

5

Pharmacological therapy data elements

0

20

0

Laboratory results elements

10

0

1

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures elements

2

2

26

Outcomes data elements

0

0

2

  1. Exact matches are available in both lists; no matches means that the data field is not represented in the Data Inventory and ‘data field as value of a data element’ means that data fields can be matched to data elements because they refer to similar concepts (for example, data field ‘Diabetes’ corresponds to data elements ‘Diagnosis/Text’).
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