Data quality in European primary care research databases. Report of a workshop held in London September 2013 [PDF]
Primary care research databases provide a significant resource for health services and epidemiological research. However since data are recorded primarily for clinical care their suitability for research may vary widely according to the research ...
Beloff, Natalia+5 more
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A pragmatic approach for measuring data quality in primary care databases [PDF]
There is currently no widely recognised methodology for undertaking data quality assessment in electronic health records used for research. In an attempt to address this, we have developed a protocol for measuring and monitoring data quality in primary ...
Beloff, Natalia+5 more
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Framing bias : the effect of figure presentation on seismic interpretation [PDF]
The authors thank all the participants in the survey, and those who helped to distribute it. We thank Prof. Christopher Jackson and co-authors for allowing the use of their published images in this experiment.
Alcalde, Juan+2 more
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Data quality problems in TPC-DI based data integration processes [PDF]
Many data driven organisations need to integrate data from multiple, distributed and heterogeneous resources for advanced data analysis. A data integration system is an essential component to collect data into a data warehouse or other data analytics ...
Ge, Mouzhi+2 more
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Challenges of Open Data Quality : More Than Just License, Format, and Customer Support [PDF]
The research described here was supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, award reference: EP/G066051/1; and by the Innovate UK award reference: 102615.Peer ...
Corsar, David, Edwards, Peter
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The reliability and validity of the SF-8 with a conflict-affected population in northern Uganda. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The SF-8 is a health-related quality of life instrument that could provide a useful means of assessing general physical and mental health amongst populations affected by conflict.
Browne, John+4 more
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Open business intelligence: on the importance of data quality awareness in user-friendly data mining [PDF]
Citizens demand more and more data for making decisions in their daily life. Therefore, mechanisms that allow citizens to understand and analyze linked open data (LOD) in a user-friendly manner are highly required.
Espinosa, Roberto+4 more
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Trends and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in England and Wales up to 2001. [PDF]
We examined national trends and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in England and Wales during the 1990s, using population-based data on 2.2 million patients who were diagnosed with one of the 20 most common cancers between 1986 and 1999 and ...
A Dixon+26 more
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Development of a metric of aquatic invertebrates for volunteers (MAIV): a simple and friendly biotic metric to assess ecological quality of streams [PDF]
Citizen science activities, involving local people in volunteer-supported and sustainable monitoring programs, are common. In this context, the objective of the present work was to develop a simple Metric of Aquatic Invertebrates for Volunteers (MAIV),
Chicharo, Luis+9 more
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Towards a Data Quality Framework for Heterogeneous Data [PDF]
yesEvery industry has significant data output as a product of their working process, and with the recent advent of big data mining and integrated data warehousing it is the case for a robust methodology for assessing the quality for sustainable and ...
Campean, I. Felician+3 more
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