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ArticleLearning health systems2025

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Ahmad Baghal, Joel Saltz, Tahsin Kurc, Prateek Prasanna, Samantha Baghal, Janos Hajagos, Erich Bremer, Shaymaa Al-Shukri, Joshua L Kennedy, Michael Rutherford and 4 more

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Article in Learning health systems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. LinkingLearning health systems · 2025
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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

14 authors.

Ahmad BaghalDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-0021
Joel SaltzStony Brook University The State University of New York, Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook New York USA.
Tahsin KurcStony Brook University The State University of New York, Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook New York USA.
Prateek PrasannaStony Brook University The State University of New York, Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook New York USA.
Samantha BaghalDepartment of Internal Medicine The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis Tennessee USA.
Janos HajagosStony Brook University The State University of New York, Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook New York USA.
Erich BremerStony Brook University The State University of New York, Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook New York USA.
Shaymaa Al-ShukriDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.
Joshua L KennedyDepartment of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Research Institute Little Rock Arkansas USA.
Michael RutherfordDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.
Tracy NolanDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7023-7586
Kirk SmithDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.
Christopher G ChuteJohns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland USA.
Fred PriorDepartment of Biomedical Informatics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine Little Rock Arkansas USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: This project demonstrates the feasibility of connecting medical imaging data and features, SARS-CoV-2 genome variants, with clinical data in the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C) repository to accelerate integrative research on detection, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19-related morbidities. The N3C curated a rich collection of aggregated and de-identified electronic health records (EHR) data of over 18 million patients, including 7.5 million COVID-positive patients, seen at hospitals across the United States. Medical imaging data and variant samples are important data modalities used in the study of COVID-19. Materials and Methods: Imaging data and features are hosted on the Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), and sequenced variant samples are analyzed and stored at the NIH GenBank. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) published the first COVID-19 data set of 105 patients on TCIA and 37 patients on GenBank. We developed a process to link imaging and genomic variants and N3C EHR data through Privacy Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) using de-identified cryptographic hashes to match records associated with the same individuals without using patient identifiers. Results: The PPRL techniques were piloted using clinical and imaging data sets provided by UAMS. Developed software components and processes executed properly, and linked data were returned and processed for visualization. Conclusion: Linking across clinical data sources at the patient level provides opportunities to gain insights from data that may not be known otherwise. The PPRL prototype and the pilot serve as a model to link disparate and diverse data repositories to enhance clinical research.

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GenBankN3CPPRLradiomicsTCIAviral variants

Identifiers

PMID39822917
PMCPMC11733468

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