However, the collective number of patients seen across most of the United States may be significant with different institutions having slightly different practices...The clinical information for all patients in such a database would be standardized so data could be pooled easily and analyzed across institutions.” The COVID-19 pandemic offers many examples of how EHR-based research has offered us tremendous insights into how to better identify those patients at risk of the worst outcomes, and the pandemic has helped accelerate the penetration of EHR-based research into infectious diseases.
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