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Clinical data quality problems and countermeasure for real world study

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Real world study (RWS) has become a hotspot for clinical research. Data quality plays a vital role in research achievement and other clinical research fields. In this paper, the common quality problems in the RWS of traditional Chinese medicine are discussed, and a countermeasure is proposed.

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  1. Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100053, China

    Runshun Zhang, Yinghui Wang & Guangli Song

  2. China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China

    Baoyan Liu

  3. School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Xuezhong Zhou

  4. Beijing Fanglue Medical Information Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100053, China

    Shizhen Fan & Xishui Pan

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Zhang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, B. et al. Clinical data quality problems and countermeasure for real world study. Front. Med. 8, 352–357 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-014-0351-1

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