Feasibility of Establishing an Inter-Institutional Electronic Data Warehouse Cooperative: A Pilot Study to Assess the Quality of Care at Three CTSA Institutions

The goal of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility of combining data from the EDWs of three CTSA institutions for the purposes of quality evaluation and improvement research. We anticipate that it will be feasible to combine data from the UU, UAMS, and the UK in a way that will allow future collaborative research efforts between investigators from the participating institutions. When feasibility has been demonstrated, we will apply for extramural funding to expand the collaboration to other CTSA institutions and create a plan for dissemination of data to other researchers. We will meet our goal of integrating and testing combined data towards translational research in the community through the following aims: