Introduction: We describe principles of leveraging clinical information models (CIMs) for data quality (DQ) checks and present the exemplary application of these principles.

Methods: openEHR compliant CIMs are used to express DQ-checks as constraints. Test setting is the process of extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) assisted ventilation data from two patient data management systems (PDMS) of a pediatric intensive care unit into a local openEHR-based data repository.

Results: A generic component logs aggregated DQ-check results for ~28 million entries. DQ-issue types in the presented results are range-, format- and value set violations.

Discussion: CIMs are suitable means to define DQ-checks for range-, format-, value set and cardinality constraints. However, they cannot constitute a complete solution for standardized DQ-assessment.