News from Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Articles
Ibuprofen, Ketorolac, and Diclofenac Similarly Effective for Low Back Pain
(9/21, Rheumatology Advisor) reports “There are no significant differences in results between ibuprofen, ketorolac, and diclofenac as first-line treatments for nonradicular low back pain, according to a study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine. This double-blind, three-armed comparative effectiveness study included 198 participants who had been admitted to the emergency department due to musculoskeletal low back pain.” Full
Building Unbiased AI
(9/21, Jessica Kim Cohen, Modern Healthcare) reports “...Many healthcare data repositories mainly include data on white patients, since they tend to use healthcare services more frequently than other groups and account for the majority of healthcare spending. But since Meharry Medical College treats many Black and Latino patients, executives hope to make such datasets more diverse...Meharry isn’t just setting up a data lake for internal research. It’s also partnering with outside organizations, like the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, who they’ll share data with for research, and is part of HCA Healthcare’s COVID-19 research consortium...” Paid Sub. Req’d
Press Releases
HHS Announces Synthetic Health Data Challenge Winners
(9/21, HHS Press Release) “...The Challenge was conducted under ONC's Synthetic Health Data Generation to Accelerate Patient-Centered Outcomes Research project, which is supported by HHS' Office of the Secretary Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund. Challenge winners created and tested innovative and novel solutions that will further augment the capabilities of Synthea™, an open-source synthetic health data generator that models the medical histories of synthetic patients. The availability of reliable and robust synthetic data generation tools safeguard patient privacy because they support appropriate stewardship practices in which real patient data is only accessed and used when necessary.” Full
Journals
Frailty and Clinical Outcomes of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Older Adults With Atrial Fibrillation: A Cohort Study
Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH, ScD, et al.
September 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine