"Data Accuracy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A measure of scientific precision, exactness, or correctness of quantitative or qualitative values, relative to the actual or true measurements.
| Descriptor ID |
D000068598
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.028 E05.318.780.725.250 L01.399.250.202 N05.715.360.300.202 N05.715.360.780.685.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Data Accuracy- Data Accuracy
- Accuracies, Data
- Accuracy, Data
- Data Accuracies
Data Quality- Data Quality
- Data Qualities
- Qualities, Data
- Quality, Data
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Data Accuracy" by people in Profiles.
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A Primer of Data Cleaning in Quantitative Research: Handling Missing Values and Outliers. J Adv Nurs. 2026 Jan; 82(1):970-975.
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Detecting Deception and Ensuring Data Integrity in a Nationwide mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Factorial Design Survey Study. J Med Internet Res. 2025 Jan 28; 27:e66384.
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Sex and Gender Variables in Data Set Creation and Data Cleaning for Inclusive and Accurate Reproductive Health Research and Quality Improvement. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2025 Jan-Feb; 70(1):131-136.
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A Road Map to Creating a High-Quality Clinical Database in Plastic Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 02 01; 153(2):515-523.
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Data collection systems for active safety surveillance of vaccines during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: developing and piloting an assessment tool (VPASS). BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2023 Mar 13; 23(1):172.
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Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease Research Challenges and?Opportunities: JACC?Review Topic of the Week. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 12 06; 80(23):2239-2250.
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Endobronchial Optical Coherence Tomography for the Microscopic Diagnosis of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 11 15; 204(10):1164-1179.
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A best-worst scaling experiment to prioritize concern about ethical issues in citizen science reveals heterogeneity on people-level v. data-level issues. Sci Rep. 2021 09 27; 11(1):19119.
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Validation of cobas 4800 HPV assay in SurePath Papanicolaou specimens for cervical cancer screening. J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2021 Jul-Aug; 10(4):399-405.
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Data quality methods through remote source data verification auditing: results from the Congenital Cardiac Research Collaborative. Cardiol Young. 2021 Nov; 31(11):1829-1834.