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Table 1 Participants’ perspective about the necessity of sending the current optional demographic and clinical data elements to SEPAS

From: Evaluating the demographic and clinical minimum data sets of Iranian National Electronic Health Record

SEPAS data elements (All of this DEs is optional currently)

SEPAS mandatory marker

SEPAS optional marker

Survey > 50% participants identified as mandatory

Survey > 50% participants identified as optional

Survey > 50% participants identified as unnecessary

Patient name

–

✓

✓

–

–

Surname

–

✓

✓

–

–

Father’s name

–

✓

✓

–

–

Father’s surname

–

✓

–

–

–

Mother’s name

–

✓

–

–

–

Mother’s surname

–

✓

–

–

✓

Nationality

–

✓

✓

–

–

Birth Cert. number

–

✓

–

–

–

Patient address

–

✓

✓

–

–

Zip code

–

✓

 

–

–

Home telephone number

–

✓

✓

–

–

Cell number

–

✓

–

–

–

Educational level

–

✓

–

–

–

Patient job

–

✓

✓

–

–

Patient job description

–

✓

–

–

–

Patient residence place

–

✓

✓

–

–

Birth Cert. issuing place

–

✓

–

–

–

Passport number (for non-Iranian patients)

–

✓

✓

–

–

Diagnosis date

–

✓

✓

–

–

Diagnosis time

–

✓

✓

–

–

Diagnosis severity

–

✓

–

–

–

Death time

–

✓

✓

–

–

Death location

–

✓

✓

–

–

Unit of hospital where patient died

–

✓

✓

–

–