title: Applied nursing informatics research - state-of-the-art methodologies using electronic health record data.
abstract: With the pervasive implementation of electronic health records (EHR), new opportunities arise for nursing research through use of EHR data. Increasingly, comparative effectiveness research within and across health systems is conducted to identify the impact of nursing for improving health, health care, and lowering costs of care. Use of EHR data for this type of research requires use of national and internationally recognized nursing terminologies to normalize data. Research methods are evolving as large data sets become available through EHRs. Little is known about the types of research and analytic methods for applied to nursing research using EHR data normalized with nursing terminologies. The purpose of this paper is to report on a subset of a systematic review of peer reviewed studies related to applied nursing informatics research involving EHR data using standardized nursing terminologies.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Jung In
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Lisiane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pruinelli
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Bonnie L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Westra
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Connie W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Delaney
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*