Guide contains quality standards for routinely collected health data in research

MedicalXpress | июн 02, 2026

International guidelines on the use of routinely collected data set new quality standards—The increasing availability of routinely collected health data, which is increasingly being used for research purposes, opens up numerous opportunities to answer more questions about health and disease—and to do so in less time. However, researchers often lack knowledge about how the data was generated, as well as control over how it was collected. An international research consortium has now published a groundbreaking guide on the use of RCDs, the first comprehensive guide of its kind.