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Review

Data Preparation

Tom Pollard  1 , Franck Dernoncourt  1 , Samuel Finlayson  1 , Adrian Velasquez  1
In: Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2016. Chapter 11.
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In this chapter we highlight the importance of reproducibility and collaboration in clinical research. We also outline common categories of hospital data and provide practical examples for working with relational databases.

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