Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-17-2020
Publication Title
Journal of medical Internet research [electronic resource]
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence; Coronavirus Infections; Eye; Eye Diseases; Humans; Hydroxychloroquine; Meta-Analysis as Topic; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Time Factors; COVID-19; analysis; artificial intelligence; drug; eye; hydroxychloroquine; meta-analysis; ocular; rapid meta-analysis; side effect; toxic; treatment
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Rapid access to evidence is crucial in times of an evolving clinical crisis. To that end, we propose a novel approach to answer clinical queries, termed rapid meta-analysis (RMA). Unlike traditional meta-analysis, RMA balances a quick time to production with reasonable data quality assurances, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to strike this balance.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate whether RMA can generate meaningful clinical insights, but crucially, in a much faster processing time than traditional meta-analysis, using a relevant, real-world example.
METHODS: The development of our RMA approach was motivated by a currently relevant clinical question: is ocular toxicity and vision compromise a side effect of hydroxychloroquine therapy? At the time of designing this study, hydroxychloroquine was a leading candidate in the treatment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We then leveraged AI to pull and screen articles, automatically extract their results, review the studies, and analyze the data with standard statistical methods.
RESULTS: By combining AI with human analysis in our RMA, we generated a meaningful, clinical result in less than 30 minutes. The RMA identified 11 studies considering ocular toxicity as a side effect of hydroxychloroquine and estimated the incidence to be 3.4% (95% CI 1.11%-9.96%). The heterogeneity across individual study findings was high, which should be taken into account in interpretation of the result.
CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that a novel approach to meta-analysis using AI can generate meaningful clinical insights in a much shorter time period than traditional meta-analysis.
Clinical Institute
Neurosciences (Brain & Spine)
Department
Neurosciences
Recommended Citation
Michelson, Matthew; Chow, Tiffany; Martin, Neil A; Ross, Mike; Tee Qiao Ying, Amelia; and Minton, Steven, "Artificial Intelligence for Rapid Meta-Analysis: Case Study on Ocular Toxicity of Hydroxychloroquine." (2020). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 3498.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/3498
