Development and Validation of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Patient Milestones in the Hepatitis C Virus Care Cascade

Jason Zucker; Justin G Aaron; Daniel J Feller; Jacek Slowikowski; Henry Evans; Matthew L Scherer; Michael T Yin; Peter Gordon

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofy153

Development and Validation of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Patient Milestones in the Hepatitis C Virus Care Cascade

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Jul 3;5(7):ofy153. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy153. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Authors

Jason Zucker^{1

2}, Justin G Aaron¹, Daniel J Feller³, Jacek Slowikowski⁴, Henry Evans⁵, Matthew L Scherer¹, Michael T Yin¹, Peter Gordon¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
³ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
⁴ Data Program Manager, Comprehensive Health Program (CHP), New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
⁵ Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York.

Abstract

Disease-specific care cascades are important public health and organizational tools to characterize gaps in care and target resources, but they are labor-intensive to maintain. Using data available from the electronic medical record, we developed an algorithm with high accuracy for correctly representing an individual's status in the hepatitis C virus care cascade.

Keywords: HCV care cascade; HCV epidemiology; HCV treatment; hepatitis C.

Abstract

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