Timing errors and temporal uncertainty in clinical databases-A narrative review

• Main Authors: Andrew J. Goodwin (Author), Danny Eytan (Author), William Dixon (Author), Sebastian D. Goodfellow (Author), Zakary Doherty (Author), Robert W. Greer (Author), Alistair McEwan (Author), Mark Tracy (Author), Peter C. Laussen (Author), Azadeh Assadi (Author), Mjaye Mazwi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A firm concept of time is essential for establishing causality in a clinical setting. Review of critical incidents and generation of study hypotheses require a robust understanding of the sequence of events but conducting such work can be problematic when timestamps are recorded by independent and u...