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ReviewThe Lancet. Digital health2022

Data capture and sharing in the COVID-19 pandemic: a cause for concern.

Louis Dron, Vinusha Kalatharan, Alind Gupta, Jonas Haggstrom, Nevine Zariffa, Andrew D Morris, Paul Arora, Jay Park

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In one paragraph

Review in The Lancet. Digital health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Louis DronReal World & Advanced Analytics, Cytel Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: louis.dron@cytel.com.
Vinusha KalatharanDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Alind GuptaDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jonas HaggstromReal World & Advanced Analytics, Cytel Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada; The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA), Health Data Research UK, London, UK.
Nevine ZariffaThe International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA), Health Data Research UK, London, UK; NMD Group, LLC, Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA.
Andrew D MorrisThe International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA), Health Data Research UK, London, UK.
Paul AroraReal World & Advanced Analytics, Cytel Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jay ParkDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
University of Toronto · CAWestern University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Routine health care and research have been profoundly influenced by digital-health technologies. These technologies range from primary data collection in electronic health records (EHRs) and administrative claims to web-based artificial-intelligence-driven analyses. There has been increased use of such health technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic, driven in part by the availability of these data. In some cases, this has resulted in profound and potentially long-lasting positive effects on medical research and routine health-care delivery. In other cases, high profile shortcomings have been evident, potentially attenuating the effect of-or representing a decreased appetite for-digital-health transformation. In this Series paper, we provide an overview of how facets of health technologies in routinely collected medical data (including EHRs and digital data sharing) have been used for COVID-19 research and tracking, and how these technologies might influence future pandemics and health-care research. We explore the strengths and weaknesses of digital-health research during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how learnings from COVID-19 might translate into new approaches in a post-pandemic era.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsArtificial IntelligenceDelivery of Health CareDigital TechnologyHumans

Identifiers

PMID36150783
PMCPMC9489064
OpenAlexW4297252449

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Registered trials

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