Clinical Data Repositories: Primary Sources of Drug-to-Drug Interaction Detection and Risk Assessment.

: Polypharmacy can be a source of adverse drug events including those caused by drug to drug interaction (DDI) exposures. Web-based DDI databases are available to researchers for the identification of potential DDI exposures. Rather than relying on potentially incomplete DDI databases, large clinical data repositories (CDR) which are integrated data sources fed with millions of heterogeneous electronic health records (EHRs) containing real-world data should be leveraged for data driven DDI identification.

Clinical Data Cohort Quality Improvement: The Case of the Medication Data in The University of Minnesota's Clinical Data Repository.

Clinical and translational research centers (CTRCs) have emerged as key centers for electronic medical record related research through integrated data repositories (IDRs) and the 'secondary use' of clinical data. Researchers accessing and pre-processing ever increasing amounts of electronic medical records for data mining tasks have a growing need for best practice approaches for clinical data quality assessment and improvement. This project focused on a large data extract for 7 statin medication prescriptions for patients with cardiovascular disease.