Re:Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychlo...
by nradov on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:27PM
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In principle that would be a great thing to check but due to lack of clinical systems interoperability it's not at all trivial to check. Surescripts and the various pharmacy chains have data on who has been taking chloroquine but researchers will still have to get access, and then do a bunch of record linkage work to compare outcomes. In the hardest hit areas I suspect healthcare providers have also fallen behind on data entry so there's going to be a data quality problem.
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Re:Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychlo...
by Cantbekhan on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:45PM
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Yes ... And it seems this issue is a global one. We seem to have the ability to put half the world in lockdowns but we don't have ability to crosscheck a bunch of different patient databases that could already contain the answer to this whole HCQ debate.
Re:Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychlo...
by viggity on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:14PM
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Korea has released all of their data and I think this is possible to cross check
Re:Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychlo...
by Cantbekhan on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:57AM
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It's not open registration tho ... I tried and it needs "admin confirmation" and I'm not sure the data is in English which would make this rather "complicated" for a non-Korean.
I'm also not sure they'll give out all patient detailed history but we'll see...