Nature May 3, 2022
For the gastrointestinal condition known as ulcerative colitis, some physicians recommend using a particular drug twice a day, others, three times. But which protocol is the best way to help people with the condition to avoid surgery? Instead of launching a clinical trial, Peter Higgins, a gastroenterologist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, examined the data.
Many health systems in the United States export clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs) into repositories known as health data warehouses for institutional use by researchers, Higgins says. Working with the...