Overview

Clinical Data Research Consultations is a service that extracts data sets from hospital data sources (1) UCSF Medical Center and (2) San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) for research purposes.

The available UCSF Medical Center data sets include longitudinal patient data sets from the APeX and UCare clinical systems.

The available SFGH data sets include longitudinal data from clinical databases on Community Health Network (CHN) patients from SFGH and other DPH facilities.

Typical uses of Clinical Data Research Consultations data include generating:

• Summary statistics
• Condition-specific patient populations for study recruitment and chart review
• Outcomes research results using historical data in hospital databases