2022
Factors Associated With COVID-19 Death in the United States: Cohort Study
Chen U, Xu H, Krause T, Greenberg R, Dong X, Jiang X. Factors Associated With COVID-19 Death in the United States: Cohort Study. JMIR Public Health And Surveillance 2022, 8: e29343. PMID: 35377319, PMCID: PMC9132142, DOI: 10.2196/29343.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19-related deathsCohort studyPatient characteristicsElectronic health record data setsLarge national cohort studyNational cohort studyChronic respiratory diseasesProportional hazards modelCOVID-19COVID-19 deathsImmunosuppressive conditionsKidney functionMale sexLung cancerCOVID-19 casesRecent diagnosisRisk factorsRespiratory diseaseCardiac diseaseOrgan transplantsHigh incidenceHazards modelNeurological diseasesOlder ageDisease
2021
Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database
Dong X, Zhou Y, Shu X, Bernstam E, Stern R, Aronoff D, Xu H, Lipworth L. Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database. Microbiology Spectrum 2021, 9: 10.1128/spectrum.00327-21. PMID: 34406805, PMCID: PMC8552669, DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00327-21.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive SARS-CoV-2 testSARS-CoV-2 testSecond positive testElectronic health record databaseCases of reinfectionHealth record databasePositive testPositive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test resultsSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testingSARS-CoV-2 PCR test resultsRecord databaseSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Intensive care unit admissionAcute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SARS-CoV-2 infectionRespiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Long-term health consequencesLarge electronic health record databasePotential long-term health consequencesCare unit admissionOverweight/obeseChronic medical conditionsPositive molecular testCOVID-19 patientsSyndrome coronavirus 2Leveraging a health information exchange for analyses of COVID-19 outcomes including an example application using smoking history and mortality
Tortolero G, Brown M, Sharma S, de Oliveira Otto M, Yamal J, Aguilar D, Gunther M, Mofleh D, Harris R, John J, de Vries P, Ramphul R, Serbo D, Kiger J, Banerjee D, Bonvino N, Merchant A, Clifford W, Mikhail J, Xu H, Murphy R, Wei Q, Vahidy F, Morrison A, Boerwinkle E. Leveraging a health information exchange for analyses of COVID-19 outcomes including an example application using smoking history and mortality. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0247235. PMID: 34081724, PMCID: PMC8174716, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247235.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody mass indexCOVID-19 patientsRisk factorsTobacco useCOVID-19 fatalitiesHealth information exchangeRace/ethnicityCOVID-19Laboratory risk factorsNumber of comorbiditiesCOVID-19 cohortMultivariable logistic regressionImportant risk factorPotential risk factorsCOVID-19 outcomesFormer tobacco usersTobacco use historyLarge health information exchangeMass indexElectronic health record systemsUnfavorable outcomeClinical dataTobacco usersOutcome analysisElectronic health information
2020
How do we share data in COVID-19 research? A systematic review of COVID-19 datasets in PubMed Central Articles
Zuo X, Chen Y, Ohno-Machado L, Xu H. How do we share data in COVID-19 research? A systematic review of COVID-19 datasets in PubMed Central Articles. Briefings In Bioinformatics 2020, 22: 800-811. PMID: 33757278, PMCID: PMC7799277, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa331.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsCOVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes
Dong X, Li J, Soysal E, Bian J, DuVall S, Hanchrow E, Liu H, Lynch K, Matheny M, Natarajan K, Ohno-Machado L, Pakhomov S, Reeves R, Sitapati A, Abhyankar S, Cullen T, Deckard J, Jiang X, Murphy R, Xu H. COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2020, 27: 1437-1442. PMID: 32569358, PMCID: PMC7337837, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa145.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health recordsLOINC codesSecondary useRule-based toolOnline web applicationOpen-source packageCritical data elementsWeb applicationData networksEnd usersData elementsIndependent test setHealth recordsTest setKey challengesData normalizationCritical resourcesTest namesRoutine clinical practice dataCodeClinical practice dataCoronavirus disease 2019COVID-19 diagnostic testsToolDevelopersCoronavirus: indexed data speed up solutions
Ohno-Machado L, Xu H. Coronavirus: indexed data speed up solutions. Nature 2020, 584: 192-192. PMID: 32782375, DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02331-3.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters