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Who seeks care, and what gets measured? Understanding the distinct mechanisms behind visit and observation processes in multi-center electronic health records

2026-08-14

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Electronic health record (EHR)-linked cohorts support association, prediction, and causal studies using longitudinally measured markers of health. However, a lab biomarker measurement is recorded only when a patient first has a medical encounter (visit process) and, a clinician orders the corresponding test and the patient follows through (observation process). These two stages may induce informative presence (IP)...

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e8215a76-ede4-5406-a1e5-bb63d42469c1
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10.64898/2026.08.12.26360236
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