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Digital Health Reporting Standards, Quality and Transparency in e-Research (203) Research Instruments, Questionnaires, and Tools (1143) Health Services Research (647) Secondary Use of Clinical Data for Research and Surveillance (597) Data Science (668) Innovations in Clinical Trials and Research Data Management (204)

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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/90482, first published .
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Measuring the Quality of Datasets: Development of the IDEFIM Indicator Set for Empirical Health Research

Measuring the Quality of Datasets: Development of the IDEFIM Indicator Set for Empirical Health Research

Authors of this article:

Sonja Harkener1 Author Orcid Image ;   Oliver J Bott2 Author Orcid Image ;   Christian Draeger3 Author Orcid Image ;   Tobias Hartz4 Author Orcid Image ;   Ekkehart Jenetzky5, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Matthias Löbe3 Author Orcid Image ;   Stefanie March7 Author Orcid Image ;   Chris Schubert8 Author Orcid Image ;   Jürgen Stausberg1 Author Orcid Image
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Sonja Harkener   1 ;   Oliver J Bott   2 , PhD ;   Christian Draeger   3 ;   Tobias Hartz   4 ;   Ekkehart Jenetzky   5, 6 , MD, PhD ;   Matthias Löbe   3 ;   Stefanie March   7 , PhD ;   Chris Schubert   8 ;   Jürgen Stausberg   1 , MD, PhD

1 Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

2 Institute for Applied Data Science Hannover (DATA|H), Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

3 Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

4 Clinical Cancer Registry Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany

5 Faculty of Health/School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

6 University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

7 Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

8 Library, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Corresponding Author:

  • Jürgen Stausberg, MD, PhD
  • Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Hufelandstr. 55
  • Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia 45122
  • Germany
  • Phone: 49 201 72377201
  • Email: stausberg@ekmed.de