Data4Med -- Analyzing real-life health-data to suggest negative and positive effects of existing treatments

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How good is Metformin? Asking the question to the OpenDamir -- Hacking Health Camp, Strasbourg, March 2015

Introduction to the research project

In the main page of this website we compute 3 health indicators by age and we cross them with the use of chronic treatments: we hope to see if people who take a chronic treatment "A" have lower or higher health risks than people who instead take chronic treatment "B" under similar conditions, so that we can build a first estimate of comparative therapeutic effects.

However this is a hope, and there are many potential bias. Indeed, using the OpenDamir to study health effects of medicines in real-life is ambitious : the format was not designed for such a study. "We do what we can with what we have", but the indicators we can compute have a variety of potential bias. For example:

Therefore, it is not a priori obvious whether the indicators make any sense. Instead of theorizing, we thought of asking the question very concretely: we thought of testing the indicators against specific results that either seem to make sense or stem from the scientific literature.

Results