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What aspect of observations is highlighted as crucial for analyzing longitudinal health data?

  • Each observation must include the type of patient.
  • Observations should focus solely on hospitalizations.
  • Observations can be aggregated regardless of the time period.
  • Events must be sorted according to the relative date. (correct)

What is a limitation of previous methods for synthesizing longitudinal health data?

  • They are unable to evaluate trends over time.
  • They rely on outdated patient cohorts.
  • They can only handle a single event per patient.
  • They do not account for variations in event attributes. (correct)

What type of model architectures are suggested as necessary for better handling of health data?

  • Generative model architectures. (correct)
  • User-defined event models.
  • Simple historical models.
  • Linear regression models.

Which of the following is true about event characteristics in longitudinal health data?

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Why is there a need for additional research in the synthesis of longitudinal health data?

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What is one requirement for using materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License?

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What can significantly affect the time required to gain access to datasets from authors?

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What type of data is mentioned as being difficult to synthesize due to privacy concerns?

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What is a potential duration for accessing datasets through independent data repositories?

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Which of the following is NOT a condition for the Creative Commons license mentioned?

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Why might patient privacy be a barrier to health data sharing?

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What type of data transaction is described as being captured by longitudinal data?

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What is a consequence of increasing privacy regulations on data access?

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What term describes the phenomenon where data custodians are hesitant to share data due to interpretations of privacy laws?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the approaches mentioned for addressing data access concerns?

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What type of analysis is considered essential for most health services research?

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What is the primary issue with obtaining retroactive consent according to the information provided?

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How was the utility of the synthesized data evaluated?

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What kind of attacks have raised concerns about the efficacy of anonymization?

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Which of the following data types was included in the cohort for the study on opioid prescriptions?

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What risk is associated with the synthetic dataset as evaluated in the study?

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What is the acceptable risk threshold for population sample risk?

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What is the median value of eGFR for the second group?

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What does the mean value of ALT indicate?

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What is the range of risk values for sample to population?

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What was used to analyze patterns in the dataset over time?

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Which metric has a Mean (SD) of 85.82 (23.56)?

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What does the median value of HCT for the second group signify?

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How does the sample risk compare to the acceptable risk threshold?

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Which type of data structure is associated with the Synthea approach?

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What type of variable types does the Synthea approach exhibit?

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How are outliers handled in the data structure of the Real-valued medical approach?

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Which of the following is not a feature of the Synthea approach according to the provided content?

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In terms of variable length, what characteristics does the Real-valued medical approach possess?

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Which category indicates that the data structure can contain high-cardinality variables?

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What is true about missing values in the context of the Synthea approach?

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Which statement about data structures in the Real-valued medical approach is correct?

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Which of the following best describes the missing values feature in the data representation?

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What is a key distinction of 'model informed by clinicians' in the context of synthetic electronic health records?

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What types of assessments were used to evaluate the utility of the generated synthetic data?

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What has the privacy assessment concluded about the synthetic data generated?

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Which feature of the generative model helps it to focus on relevant attributes?

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How does the generative model handle heterogeneous data types?

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What element did the authors manipulate to improve the model's focus on event attributes?

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Who contributed to the privacy analysis and regulatory consultation?

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Which organization partially funded the study mentioned in the content?

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What role did CC and DP play in the study?

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Flashcards

Longitudinal data

The process of collecting and storing information about individuals over a period of time, such as medical records, insurance claims, and prescription records.

Longitudinal data

A type of data that captures events and transactions over time, allowing researchers to understand how things change and evolve.

Synthetic longitudinal data

The use of data to create realistic and usable datasets that resemble real-world data, but without compromising patient privacy.

Curated data

Data that is structured and organized, making it easier to analyze and interpret.

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Data access

The process of obtaining permission from individuals to use their personal information for research purposes.

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Patient privacy

The practice of keeping personal information confidential and protected.

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Privacy regulations

Strict guidelines and regulations designed to protect sensitive information, including health data.

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Data sharing

The process of sharing data with others for research purposes.

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Privacy Chill

A situation where individuals are hesitant to share personal data due to concerns about privacy, potentially hindering research and data access.

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Patient Consent

This legal basis for making data available requires the consent of individuals for secondary use of their data.

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Anonymization

In this approach, sensitive identifying information is removed from data to protect privacy, but it faces challenges and can be vulnerable to re-identification.

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Data Synthesis

It involves creating artificial datasets that resemble real data, but without containing actual identifiable information, to enable safe data sharing.

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Longitudinal Study

A research method where individuals are tracked and studied over time to understand how factors change and influence outcomes.

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Attribution Disclosure Risk Assessment

An assessment that estimates the risk of identifying individuals from a dataset, especially focusing on synthetic data, to ensure privacy.

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Health Data Infrastructure

Refers to the use and access of health data for research and other purposes, often regulated for privacy and ethical considerations.

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Time-To-Event Analysis

This approach to data analysis examines how a factor influences the time it takes for an event to occur, commonly used in health services research.

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Synthetic Electronic Medical Records

A type of synthetic data that mimics real electronic health records (EHRs) but uses fake patient data.

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Synthetic EHR Approach

Designing and creating a synthetic medical record system that mimics the real world. This could involve building a software platform to generate these records.

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Data-driven approach for creating synthetic electronic medical records

Using a data-driven approach to build a model for creating synthetic medical records. This means relying heavily on analysis of real records to learn patterns and make the synthetic data more realistic.

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Purpose of Synthetic Electronic Medical Records

The synthetic medical records are designed to be used in research and analysis, allowing researchers to study medical trends and develop treatments without risking patient privacy.

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Research Application of Synthetic Electronic Medical Records

The synthetic data can be used to study the effects of different treatments or medical interventions without having to collect data from actual patients.

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Privacy Benefits of Synthetic Electronic Medical Records

The synthetic medical records are designed to protect the privacy of real patients by using randomized and anonymized data.

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Validation of Synthetic Electronic Medical Records

The process of ensuring that the synthetic data is accurate and realistic by comparing it to the data from real patient records.

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Mean

The average value of a dataset or variable, representing the central tendency.

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Median

The middle value in a sorted dataset, representing the center point.

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Interquartile Range (IQR)

The difference between the third quartile (75th percentile) and the first quartile (25th percentile) of a dataset.

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Sample to Population Risk

A statistical measure that quantifies the risk of disclosure of an individual's identity from a synthetic dataset to the original dataset.

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Population to Sample Risk

A statistical measure that quantifies the risk of disclosure of an individual's identity from the original dataset to the synthetic dataset.

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Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

A type of artificial neural network that uses sequential data to predict future events.

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Privacy Assessment

A data privacy measure that aims to minimize the risk of identifying individuals from a synthetic dataset.

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Combined Generative Models

These models combine tabular generative models (for capturing relationships between variables) with longitudinal generative models (for capturing changes over time) to create realistic synthetic data.

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Masking on the Loss Function

This technique focuses the model's learning on specific attributes relevant at each point in time, improving the accuracy of the synthetic data.

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Dynamically Weighting the Loss

This process assigns different weights to different types of data (like event attributes and labels) to make sure the synthetic data accurately reflects the real data.

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Multiple Embedding Layers

Multiple layers in the model handle various types of data (text, numbers, etc.), enabling the creation of realistic synthetic data.

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Workload Aware Assessment

This assessment ensures that the generated synthetic data accurately replicates the characteristics and relationships found in real-world data.

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Generative Model Design

This approach uses a combination of approaches, including data masking, dynamic weighting, and multiple embedding layers, to preserve privacy while creating realistic synthetic data.

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Patient Health Network (PHN)

A method for organizing patient data, where information from different transactional tables is linked together, based on the date of the event relative to the start of the study.

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Event characteristics

These are attributes specific to a particular event type, such as a hospitalization or lab test, that capture details about the event.

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Chronological order of events

A data set that represents longitudinal observations, where all events for a specific individual are sorted chronologically according to their date relative to the start of the study.

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Relative date of the event

This includes the date of the event, which can be used to understand the sequence of events over time, and is important for analyzing trends in patient health.

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Challenges in Analyzing Longitudinal Health Data

Various methods have been proposed to analyze longitudinal data, but none meet all the requirements, indicating the need for further research and development.

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Study Notes

Generating Synthetic Longitudinal Health Data

  • Generating access to administrative health data for research is challenging due to increased privacy regulations.
  • Synthetic datasets offer an alternative, which do not correspond to real individuals but maintain data patterns.
  • A recurrent deep learning model was used to create synthetic administrative health data from Alberta Health's database.
  • The model created a synthetic dataset with 120,000 individuals.
  • Data utility was evaluated by comparing synthetic and real data distributions using Hellinger distance.
  • Hellinger distances between real and synthetic data were low for event types, attributes, and Markov transition matrices of order 1 and 2.
  • Similar analytical results were observed when applying a Cox regression to both real and synthetic data (68% overlap of confidence intervals).
  • The privacy risk of the synthetic data (attribution disclosure risk) was significantly lower than the typical acceptable risk threshold of 0.09.
  • The synthetic data, due to its characteristics and privacy protections, can be used in research scenarios where access to real data is restricted.

Background

  • Access to high quality individual health data for research is often difficult.
  • Obtaining patient data for research can be a time-consuming and difficult process.
  • Many researchers have experienced low success rates in obtaining patient data for their research.
  • Alternative methods like generating synthetic data address these access barriers.
  • Anonymization methods have shown vulnerabilities to re-identification attacks.
  • Synthetic data aims to avoid these issues and ensure data sharing while maintaining patient privacy.

Methods

  • The study developed a recurrent neural network (RNN) model.
  • The model was tested on prescription opioid use data for residents of Alberta.
  • The model considered patient demographics, lab results, prescriptions, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.
  • Model utility was evaluated using general purpose metrics, looking at data structures and characteristics.
  • Also evaluated the model results from applying similar analytical techniques to both real and synthetic data.
  • Attribution disclosure risk in the synthetic data was calculated.

Requirements for Synthetic Longitudinal Data

  • Original dataset combines longitudinal and cross-sectional data.
  • Longitudinal sequence length varies among individuals.
  • Datasets have heterogeneous data types (categorical, continuous, discrete).
  • Datasets contain outliers and rare events.
  • The data may contain missing values.
  • The model should incorporate prior information about patients.
  • Generation should be based on existing data.

Data Characteristics

  • Datasets from Alberta Health (2012–2018) were analyzed.
  • Data included patient demographics, mortality, laboratory results, and dispensing records.
  • The data structure used tables for demographics and transactions.
  • The transactional tables included event date relative to the start of the study.
  • Each event has its own characteristics (different attributes for different event types).

Generative Model Description

  • The model used a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture.
  • Specifically a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM).
  • The input included prior baseline characteristics and event attributes.
  • The output predicted the next event labels and attributes.
  • The model incorporated embedding layers for categorical data.
  • The model was trained using a form of conditional LSTM structure.

Generic Utility Assessments

  • These assessed the general similarities.
  • Included comparisons of event numbers and distribution.
  • Utilized histograms, bar charts, and Hellinger distance between real and synthetic data distributions.
  • Analyzed marginal distributions to evaluate similarity utilizing Hellinger distance on real and synthetic datasets distributions of specific characteristics.
  • Comparisons of transition matrices were also computed.
  • Hellinger distances were calculated to assess similarity and differences in distribution structures.

Analysis-Specific Utility Assessments

  • Performed Cox regression analysis to assess if real data was reproducible with synthetic data.
  • Compared hazard ratios and confidence intervals from real and synthetic models to evaluate similarity.

Privacy Assessment

  • Evaluation of attribution disclosure risk using quasi-identifiers.
  • Utilizing a population-to-sample and sample-to-population attack paradigm.
  • Risk values below 0.09 (acceptable threshold) indicated acceptable risk in the synthetic dataset.

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