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The Development Of A Mobile App-Focused Deduplication Strategy For The Apple Heart Study That Informs Recommendations For Future Digital Trials, Ariadna Garcia, Justin Lee, Vidhya Balasubramanian, Rebecca Gardner, Santosh E. Gummidipundi, Grace Hung, Todd Ferris, Lauren Cheung, Sumbul Desai, Christopher B. Granger, Mellanie True Hills, Peter Kowey, Divya Nag, John S. Rumsfeld, Andrea M. Russo, Jeffrey W. Stein, Nisha Talati, David Tsay, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Marco V. Perez, Mintu P. Turakhia, Haley Hedlin, Manisha Desai Nov 2022

The Development Of A Mobile App-Focused Deduplication Strategy For The Apple Heart Study That Informs Recommendations For Future Digital Trials, Ariadna Garcia, Justin Lee, Vidhya Balasubramanian, Rebecca Gardner, Santosh E. Gummidipundi, Grace Hung, Todd Ferris, Lauren Cheung, Sumbul Desai, Christopher B. Granger, Mellanie True Hills, Peter Kowey, Divya Nag, John S. Rumsfeld, Andrea M. Russo, Jeffrey W. Stein, Nisha Talati, David Tsay, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Marco V. Perez, Mintu P. Turakhia, Haley Hedlin, Manisha Desai

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

An app-based clinical trial enrolment process can contribute to duplicated records, carrying data management implications. Our objective was to identify duplicated records in real time in the Apple Heart Study (AHS). We leveraged personal identifiable information (PII) to develop a dissimilarity score (DS) using the Damerau-Levenshtein distance. For computational efficiency, we focused on four types of records at the highest risk of duplication. We used the receiver operating curve (ROC) and resampling methods to derive and validate a decision rule to classify duplicated records. We identified 16,398 (4%) duplicated participants, resulting in 419,297 unique participants out of a total of …


Publication Trends In Telemedicine Research Originating From Canada, Jim S Xie, Keean Nanji, Mohammad Khan, Muhammad F Khalid, Sunir J Garg, Lehana Thabane, Sobha Sivaprasad, Varun Chaudhary May 2022

Publication Trends In Telemedicine Research Originating From Canada, Jim S Xie, Keean Nanji, Mohammad Khan, Muhammad F Khalid, Sunir J Garg, Lehana Thabane, Sobha Sivaprasad, Varun Chaudhary

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Telemedicine modalities for patient care have seen significant global uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to bibliometrically evaluate the evolution and current landscape of telemedicine literature in Canada. The Scopus database was searched to identify telemedicine publications for which the first or last author had a Canadian institutional affiliation. Study selection and data abstraction were conducted by two pairs of independent reviewers. Between 1976 and January 2021, 810 of 3,620 retrieved citations were telemedicine publications originating from Canada, including 29 randomized controlled trials and 6 systematic reviews. The annual publication output increased substantially from 1/year in 1976 to …