TY - JOUR
T1 - Rationale and design of the registry for stones of the kidney and Ureter (ReSKU)
T2 - A prospective observational registry to study the natural history of urolithiasis patients
AU - Chang, Helena C.
AU - Tzou, David T.
AU - Usawachintachit, Manint
AU - Duty, Brian D.
AU - Hsi, Ryan S.
AU - Harper, Jonathan D.
AU - Sorensen, Mathew D.
AU - Stoller, Marshall L.
AU - Sur, Roger L.
AU - Chi, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2016, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2016.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - Objectives: Registry-based clinical research in nephrolithiasis is critical to advancing quality in urinary stone disease management and ultimately reducing stone recurrence. A need exists to develop Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant registries that comprise integrated electronic health record (EHR) data using prospectively defined variables. An EHR-based standardized patient database - the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter (ReSKU™) - was developed, and herein we describe our implementation outcomes. Materials and Methods: Interviews with academic and community endourologists in the United States, Canada, China, and Japan identified demographic, intraoperative, and perioperative variables to populate our registry. Variables were incorporated into a HIPAA-compliant Research Electronic Data Capture database linked to text prompts and registration data within the Epic EHR platform. Specific data collection instruments supporting New patient, Surgery, Postoperative, and Follow-up clinical encounters were created within Epic to facilitate automated data extraction into ReSKU. Results: The number of variables within each instrument includes the following: New patient - 60, Surgery - 80, Postoperative - 64, and Follow-up - 64. With manual data entry, the mean times to complete each of the clinic-based instruments were (minutes) as follows: New patient - 12.06 ± 2.30, Postoperative - 7.18 ± 1.02, and Follow-up - 8.10 ± 0.58. These times were significantly reduced with the use of ReSKU structured clinic note templates to the following: New patient - 4.09 ± 1.73, Postoperative - 1.41 ± 0.41, and Follow-up - 0.79 ± 0.38. With automated data extraction from Epic, manual entry is obviated. Conclusions: ReSKU is a longitudinal prospective nephrolithiasis registry that integrates EHR data, lowering the barriers to performing high quality clinical research and quality outcome assessments in urinary stone disease.
AB - Objectives: Registry-based clinical research in nephrolithiasis is critical to advancing quality in urinary stone disease management and ultimately reducing stone recurrence. A need exists to develop Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant registries that comprise integrated electronic health record (EHR) data using prospectively defined variables. An EHR-based standardized patient database - the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter (ReSKU™) - was developed, and herein we describe our implementation outcomes. Materials and Methods: Interviews with academic and community endourologists in the United States, Canada, China, and Japan identified demographic, intraoperative, and perioperative variables to populate our registry. Variables were incorporated into a HIPAA-compliant Research Electronic Data Capture database linked to text prompts and registration data within the Epic EHR platform. Specific data collection instruments supporting New patient, Surgery, Postoperative, and Follow-up clinical encounters were created within Epic to facilitate automated data extraction into ReSKU. Results: The number of variables within each instrument includes the following: New patient - 60, Surgery - 80, Postoperative - 64, and Follow-up - 64. With manual data entry, the mean times to complete each of the clinic-based instruments were (minutes) as follows: New patient - 12.06 ± 2.30, Postoperative - 7.18 ± 1.02, and Follow-up - 8.10 ± 0.58. These times were significantly reduced with the use of ReSKU structured clinic note templates to the following: New patient - 4.09 ± 1.73, Postoperative - 1.41 ± 0.41, and Follow-up - 0.79 ± 0.38. With automated data extraction from Epic, manual entry is obviated. Conclusions: ReSKU is a longitudinal prospective nephrolithiasis registry that integrates EHR data, lowering the barriers to performing high quality clinical research and quality outcome assessments in urinary stone disease.
KW - prospective studies
KW - registries
KW - urolithiasis
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U2 - 10.1089/end.2016.0648
DO - 10.1089/end.2016.0648
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27758162
AN - SCOPUS:85002245196
SN - 0892-7790
VL - 30
SP - 1332
EP - 1338
JO - Journal of Endourology
JF - Journal of Endourology
IS - 12
ER -