Application of openEHR archetypes to automate data quality rules for electronic health records: a case study

Table 4 The quality-related features in the openEHR RM and the corresponding DQR templates.^a

Sub-dimension of Kahn’s DQA framework	Features	Type	Definition in RM	Use in this study	DQR templates with example for problematic data (in pseudocode)
Temporal plausibility	Instruction, action, observation, evaluation	Entry class	To represent the status of one clinical event	The time sequence logic of one clinical event, for example, the operation request time in Instruction should early than operation executed time in Action	Select attribute
					From archetypes
					Where Instruction. attribute.date/time > action.attribute.date/time

^aThe archetype and attribute stand for corresponding column name and table name of the CDR database

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