2021
Leveraging 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
COVID-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
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