Data Miners

The link is the form for a data abstraction request.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AemBxPGH210uZGZqNWs2cmdfMzFoY2NnNG43Mw&hl=en

This is what the data abstractors say (they are looking for work/to keep busy):

We can pull clinical information from electronic records back through 1996

Can pull from programs including GPAS, MICS, Documents Browser, Synthesis, and limited billing information through MICS

We have some contacts that can pull patient lists together with certain criteria –
(i.e. Family Medicine patients that are over 18 and have a diagnosis of diabetes from 2000-2004)

Have done a study involving all three Mayo Clinic sites

Have pulled information to find distance patient traveled from home to a Family Medicine site for their visit

We can enter data from surveys that are completed or create a survey and send out from information given to us

Information we pull:
Demographics (current info only) – age, race, sex, marital status
Laboratory information in MICS
Diagnosis
Visit counts
CVI/PFH – current information only
Any information found in a clinical note through Documents Browser
We have a Charlson index and specific disease list
Can calculate BMI’s
Vitals

We typically work in Excel spreadsheets but we also have limited ability to work with Access as well.

We have done studies with as few as 50 patients and as many as 4000. The timeframe to do each study depends on numerous things such as data to be pulled, complexity of spreadsheet, and other projects we are working on.