Identifying and mitigating biases in EHR laboratory tests
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Identifying and mitigating biases in EHR laboratory tests
Electronic health record (EHR) data show promise for deriving new ways of modeling human disease states. Although EHR researchers often use numerical values of laboratory tests as features in disease models, a great deal of information is contained in the context within which a laboratory test is taken. For example, the same numerical value of a creatinine test has different interpretation for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.03.016