Ensuring Data Quality in eRA
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Ensuring Data Quality in eRA Mark Siegert Chief, Data Quality Branch Division of Information Services
Why is data quality important? • Affects every business area that touches the application. • Bad data can delay a review or an award • Duplicate profiles can cause a PD/PI to miss out on continuous submission eligibility • Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act • Organizational Hierarchy coding can affect end of year reporting
Data Quality Branch Accomplishments in 2009: • Number of Potential Duplicate Profiles in eRA Total collapsed project inception: 55,002 Number collapsed in 2009: 4,833 • Provided expert-level assistance for over 2,600 particularly complex or difficult extramural data issues/questions • Processed 5,069 registrations for New Organizations in the Commons, with a monthly high of 1,033 in April 2009
Commons Registrations Completed Calendar Years 2005-2010As of 08/31/2010 10:00 a.m.
Current actions to assure data quality • Due diligence when registering organizations • More and more checks when application comes into eRA from Grants.gov • Work with eRA CRMs when the source of incorrect data can be traced to a specific eRA module
Future changes coming to assist in quality of data • NIH Office of the Enterprise Architect project to standardize external organization registration (Enrollment of Vendors and Grantees) • Use of CCR data where possible • Federated Authentication – should reduce potential for duplicate profiles • Project to determine top sources of data corruption and prioritization for their correction with eRA management
How can you help? • Always check for an existing account for a new researcher • Reviewer, trainee, etc. • Prevents 2 accounts/profiles in Commons • Stress the importance of correctly entering the Division (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, etc) and the department on the 424RR • Check our work using RePORTER (http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm) • Report any grants coded incorrectly to the Help Desk