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Use of Real-World EMR Data to Rapidly Evaluate Treatment Effects of Existing Drugs for Emerging Infectious Diseases: Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment as an Example

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  • Chenguang Zhang

    (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

  • Masayuki Nigo

    (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

  • Shivani Patel

    (Memorial Hermann Health System)

  • Duo Yu

    (Medical College of Wisconsin)

  • Edward Septimus

    (Memorial Hermann Health System
    Harvard Medical School)

  • Hulin Wu

    (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

Abstract

For an emerging infectious disease such as 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), initially there may not be any existing medication or treatment immediately available, which may result in high morbidity and mortality in a short time of period. In this case, it is urgent to quickly identify whether existing medications or treatments could be repurposed to treat the newly appeared disease before time-consuming randomized clinical trials (RCTs) can be done and new drugs can be developed. For example, when SARS-CoV-2 appeared in late 2019, clinicians started to use existing antiviral drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, immune-based therapies and other types of medications to treat COVID-19 patients before any data or evidence was available to support the use of these medications for the new COVID-19 disease. Most of these medications have proven to be ineffective or only marginally effective to treat COVID-19 patients by more rigorous RCT or secondary data analyses later. We propose to use real-world electronic medical records (EMR) data to develop real-time treatment evaluation and monitoring systems to identify effective treatments or avoid ineffective treatments for emerging diseases in the future. In order to do this, first we have to deal with the challenges in processing and analyzing complex and noisy EMR data. In this paper, we outline these challenges and propose practical statistical methods and guidelines, which are derived from a project in evaluating anti-viral medication, remdesivir, for COVID-19 treatment based on a local healthcare EMR database.

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  • Chenguang Zhang & Masayuki Nigo & Shivani Patel & Duo Yu & Edward Septimus & Hulin Wu, 2024. "Use of Real-World EMR Data to Rapidly Evaluate Treatment Effects of Existing Drugs for Emerging Infectious Diseases: Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment as an Example," Statistics in Biosciences, Springer;International Chinese Statistical Association, vol. 16(3), pages 604-633, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stabio:v:16:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s12561-023-09411-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s12561-023-09411-8
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