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Automatic Population of the Case Report Forms for an International Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

King, A. J.; Higgins, L.; Au, C.; Malakouti, S.; Music, E.; Kalchthaler, K.; Clermont, G.; Garrard, W.; Huang, D. T.; McVerry, B. J.; Seymour, C. W.; Linstrum, K.; McNamara, A.; Green, C.; Loar, I. D.; Roberts, T.; Marroquin, O.; Angus, D. C.; Horvat, C. M.

2023-09-20 health informatics
10.1101/2023.09.19.23295797 medRxiv
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ObjectivesTo automatically populate the case report forms (CRFs) for an international, pragmatic, multifactorial, response-adaptive, Bayesian COVID-19 platform trial. MethodsThe locations of focus included 27 hospitals and 2 large electronic health record (EHR) instances (1 Cerner Millennium and 1 Epic) that are part of the same health system in the United States. This paper describes our efforts to use EHR data to automatically populate four of the trials forms: baseline, daily, discharge, and response-adaptive randomization. ResultsBetween April 2020 and May 2022, 417 patients from the UPMC health system were enrolled in the trial. A MySQL-based extract, transform, and load pipeline automatically populated 499 of 526 CRF variables. The populated forms were statistically and manually reviewed and then reported to the trials international data coordinating center. ConclusionsWe accomplished automatic population of CRFs in a large platform trial and made recommendations for improving this process for future trials.

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