在预测电子健康记录数据完整性时,尽量减少种族算法偏见
Priyanka Anand1, Yinzhu Jin1, Jun Liu1
1Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
|July 23, 2025
概括
改善电子健康记录 (EHR) 连续性算法对不同人群至关重要. 优化种族建模策略减少了对种族少数群体的EHR连续性预测中的算法偏差.
科学领域:
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 电子健康记录 (EHR) 连续性算法以前在种族多样化的人口中表现不佳.
- 提高EHR连续性预测的准确性对于公平的医疗保健研究至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 通过优化其比赛建模策略来提高EHR连续性算法的性能.
- 为了减少种族少数群体在EHR连续性预测中的算法偏差.
主要方法:
- 一个与索赔相关的EHR数据集被随机划分为培训 (70%) 和测试 (30%) 集.
- 开发了具有和没有种族相互作用的模型和种族特定的模型,使用交叉验证的LASSO进行预测器选择.
- 通过使用与Medicaid相关的EHR验证数据集的接收器操作曲线 (AUC) 下面的面积来比较性能.
主要成果:
- 在验证组中,将种族相互作用术语纳入黑人 (AUC 0.821对比0.812) 和其他非白人种族 (AUC 0.828对比0.812) 亚组的模型性能得到改善.
- 特定种族模型的表现与在种族子组内具有种族相互作用术语的模型相比.
- 种族相互作用模型减少了对比有效性研究 (CER) 变量的错误分类,对于预测EHR连续性高的人来说是2-3倍.
结论:
- 包括种族交互术语显著改善了种族子组中的EHR连续性算法性能.
- 这种优化的算法有可能在EHR数据分析中减轻对种族少数群体的算法偏见.
- 提高EHR连续性预测准确度对于公平的比较有效性研究至关重要.
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