Potential bias and lack of generalizability in electronic health record data : reflections on health equity from the National Institutes of Health Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association..

Embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) play a vital role in addressing current population health problems, and their use of electronic health record (EHR) systems promises efficiencies that will increase the speed and volume of relevant and generalizable research. However, as the number of ePCTs using EHR-derived data grows, so does the risk that research will become more vulnerable to biases due to differences in data capture and access to care for different subsets of the population, thereby propagating inequities in health and the healthcare system. We identify 3 challenges-incomplete and variable capture of data on social determinants of health, lack of representation of vulnerable populations that do not access or receive treatment, and data loss due to variable use of technology-that exacerbate bias when working with EHR data and offer recommendations and examples of ways to actively mitigate bias.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA - 30(2023), 9 vom: 18. Aug., Seite 1561-1566

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Boyd, Andrew D [VerfasserIn]
Gonzalez-Guarda, Rosa [VerfasserIn]
Lawrence, Katharine [VerfasserIn]
Patil, Crystal L [VerfasserIn]
Ezenwa, Miriam O [VerfasserIn]
O'Brien, Emily C [VerfasserIn]
Paek, Hyung [VerfasserIn]
Braciszewski, Jordan M [VerfasserIn]
Adeyemi, Oluwaseun [VerfasserIn]
Cuthel, Allison M [VerfasserIn]
Darby, Juanita E [VerfasserIn]
Zigler, Christina K [VerfasserIn]
Ho, P Michael [VerfasserIn]
Faurot, Keturah R [VerfasserIn]
Staman, Karen L [VerfasserIn]
Leigh, Jonathan W [VerfasserIn]
Dailey, Dana L [VerfasserIn]
Cheville, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Del Fiol, Guilherme [VerfasserIn]
Knisely, Mitchell R [VerfasserIn]
Grudzen, Corita R [VerfasserIn]
Marsolo, Keith [VerfasserIn]
Richesson, Rachel L [VerfasserIn]
Schlaeger, Judith M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Community engagement
Health equity
Health literacy
Journal Article
Patient-reported outcomes
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Social determinants of health

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Date Completed 21.08.2023

Date Revised 23.08.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/jamia/ocad115

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35865372X