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Table 3 Integration of clinical data

From: Integrating historical clinical and financial data for pharmacological research

    

Medication Catalog (codes used)

Source

Matching Approach

Matching Attribute

Medication Catalog (reference)

1999

2004

2009

Historical Inpatient System

Metadata

Charge Codes

2442/2892

(84.44%)

1858/2131

(87.19%)

1916/2155

(88.91%)

1618/1717

(94.23%)

  

Dispense Codes

2622/3804

(68.93%)

1900/2461

(77.20%)

2037/2487

(81.91%)

1798/1899

(94.68%)

 

Vocab.

Primary NDC (Multum)

1402/3126

(44.85%)

903/2151

(41.98%)

996/2260

(44.07%)

818/1765

(46.35%)

  

Related NDCs (Multum)

2574

(82.34%)

1849

(85.96%)

1977

(87.48%)

1618

(91.67%)

  

Primary NDC (MediSpan)

1129

(36.12%)

725

(33.71%)

844

(37.35%)

686

(38.87%)

  

Related NDCs (MediSpan)

1835

(58.70%)

1234

(57.37%)

1360

(60.18%)

1110

(62.89%)

  

Primary NDC (RxNorm)

1301

(41.62%)

850

(39.52%)

937

(41.46%)

775

(43.91%)

  

Related NDCs (RxNorm)

2024

(64.75%)

1397

(64.95%)

1502

(66.46%)

1242

(70.37%)

Outpatient System

Vocab.

Primary NDCs

2786/39461

(7.06%)

432/1158

(37.31%)

1351/4285

(31.53%)

1734/6990

(24.81%)

  

Related NDCs (Multum)

7023

(17.80%)

918

(79.27%)

2608

(60.86%)

3397

(48.60%)

  

Related NDCs (MediSpan)

8140

(20.63%)

831

(71.76%)

2354

(54.94%)

3160

(45.21%)

  

Primary NDC (RxNorm)

2611

(6.62%)

423

(36.53%)

1310

(30.57%)

1675

(23.96%)

  

Related NDCs (RxNorm)

3921

(9.94%)

556

(48.01%)

1661

(38.76%)

2147

(30.72%)

  1. Integration of orderables from historical inpatient and current outpatient to the current inpatient EHR system yielded the numbers below.