• DocumentCode
    1787213
  • Title

    Real-World Data Set Parameters and Synthesization for Matching Identity in Clinical Protocols

  • Author

    Farah, Hanna ; Amyot, Daniel ; El Emam, Khaled

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    27-29 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    263
  • Lastpage
    266
  • Abstract
    A main challenge for clinical protocol evaluations is the lack of public real-world data sets due to the private nature of patient information. We studied the case of phase 1 clinical trials where the identity of participants is key in determining their eligibility to participate in a trial. Our objective is to use the experience from our study to present a list of parameters to help generate data sets that closely match their real-world counterparts. We also examine existing tools and address their limitations with a tool of our own. Through the development of our clinical trial protocol, we discovered a field selection that proved to be efficient to detect a participant´s identity, which may be used by other researchers in their protocols.
  • Keywords
    data handling; electronic health records; clinical protocol evaluations; data set generation; identity matching; participant identity detection; patient information; real-world data set parameters; real-world data set synthesization; record linkage; Clinical trials; Couplings; Databases; Generators; Protocols; Sociology; Statistics; clinical trials; data set generation; identity matching; privacy; protocol evaluation; record linkage; synthetic data;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    New York, NY
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CBMS.2014.48
  • Filename
    6881888