Glucose monitoring

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Title: Variations in Glucose Monitoring Frequency

Type:

Data not missing at random

Description

A study entitled "Variation in Monitoring: Glucose Measurement in the ICU as a Case Study to Preempt Spurious Correlations" examines how often glucose measurements are taken for sepsis patients in the ICU setting . Utilizing the MIMIC-IV database, the study reveals no significant disparities on glocose monitoring on day 1 of ICU admission across different demographic groups. However, subsequent days showed that Hispanic and Black patients, as well as those proficient in English, received glucose measurements more frequently than their counterparts. These findings are critical as they highlight a potential source of bias in clinical data, which can inadvertently be transferred to AI models used in healthcare.

Keywords

Glucose, Race, English proficiency

References

Variation in monitoring: Glucose measurement in the ICU as a case study to preempt spurious correlations