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  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Biostatistics
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Accurate estimation of lung function decline in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) from Electronic Health Records (EHR) is crucial.
  • Clinically obtained testing data presents complexities that require robust analytical methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare various analytical methods for estimating the rate of change in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) from EHR data in COPD patients.
  • To identify the most reliable method for assessing FEV1 decline, accounting for data irregularities.

Main Methods:

  • Compared non-regressive (Total Change, Average Change) and regressive (Quantile, RANSAC, Huber) methods to estimate FEV1 rate of change (mL/year and %/year) in 1417 COPD patients with ≥3 outpatient tests.
  • Analyzed distributions of estimates, focusing on extreme values, and used regression to test associations with hospitalizations.
  • Validated findings in an external cohort.

Main Results:

  • Median FEV1 decline was approximately -30 mL/year or -2%/year.
  • Non-regressive methods produced erroneous estimates due to outliers or short test intervals.
  • Regressive methods, particularly Huber regression, minimized extreme estimates and showed associations with hospitalizations, smoking status, comorbidities, and prior hospitalizations.

Conclusions:

  • Estimating FEV1 rate of change from EHR data is clinically relevant but sensitive to data quality.
  • Huber regression emerged as a robust method for defining individual lung function change from EHR data, outperforming non-regressive approaches.
  • The findings were validated in an external cohort, supporting the clinical applicability of the Huber method.