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Hu S, Liu J, Cornacchi SD, Klassen AF, Pusic AL, Kaur MN. Extracting big data from the internet to support the development of a new patient-reported outcome measure for breast implant illness: a proof of concept study. Qual Life Res 2024; 33:1975-1983. [PMID: 38771557 DOI: 10.1007/s11136-024-03672-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
Abstract
PURPOSE Individuals with health conditions often use online patient forums to share their experiences. These patient data are freely available and have rarely been used in patient-reported outcomes (PRO) research. Web scraping, the automated identification and coding of webpage data, can be employed to collect patient experiences for PRO research. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of using web scraping to support the development of a new PRO measure for breast implant illness (BII). METHODS Nine publicly available BII-specific web forums were chosen post-consultation with two prominent BII advocacy leaders. The Python Selenium and Pandas packages were used to automate extraction of de-identified text from the individual posts/comments into a spreadsheet. Data were coded using a line-by-line approach and constant comparison was used to create top-level domains and sub-domains. RESULTS 6362 unique codes were identified and organized into four top-level domains of information needs, symptom experiences, life impact of BII, and care experiences. Information needs of women included seeking/sharing information pre-breast implant surgery, post-breast implant surgery, while contemplating explant surgery, and post-explant surgery. Symptoms commonly described by women included fatigue, brain fog, and musculoskeletal symptoms. Many comments described BII's impact on daily activities and psychosocial wellbeing. Lastly, some comments described negative care experiences and experiences related to advocating for themselves to providers. CONCLUSION This proof-of-concept study demonstrated the feasibility of employing web scraping as a cost-effective, efficient method to understand the experiences of women with BII. These data will be used to inform the development of a BII-specific PROM.
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- Sophia Hu
- Department of Surgery, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street W, Hamilton, ON, L8S 1C7, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street W, Hamilton, ON, L8S 1C7, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Honap S, Buisson A, Danese S, Beaugerie L, Peyrin-Biroulet L. Patient and Public Involvement in Research: Lessons for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Crohns Colitis 2023; 17:1882-1891. [PMID: 37220886 PMCID: PMC10673804 DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Participatory research, also referred to as patient and public involvement, is an approach that involves collaborating with patients affected by the focus of the research, on the design, development and delivery of research to improve outcomes. There are two broad justifications for this: first, that it enhances the quality and relevance of research, and second, that it satisfies the ethical argument for patient inclusion in decisions about them. This synergistic and collaborative effort, which bridges the divide between researchers and participants with the lived condition, is now a mainstream activity and widely accepted as best practice. Although there has been a substantial increase in the literature over the past two decades, little has been published on how participatory research has been used in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] research and little guidance as to how researchers should go about this. With an increasing incidence and prevalence worldwide, combined with declining study enrolment in an era of perennial unmet need, there are a multitude of benefits of participatory research to IBD patients and investigators, including research output that is informed and relevant to the real world. A key example of participatory research in IBD is the I-CARE study, a large-scale, pan-European observational study assessing the safety of advanced therapies, which had significant patient involvement throughout the study. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the benefits and challenges of participatory research and discuss opportunities of building strategic alliances between IBD patients, healthcare providers and academics to strengthen research outcomes.
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- Sailish Honap
- Department of Gastroenterology, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Inserm NGERE U1256, University Hospital of Nancy, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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Ricci L, Toussaint Y, Becker J, Najjar H, Renier A, Choukour M, Buisson A, Devos C, Epstein J, Peyrin Biroulet L, Guillemin F. Web-based and machine learning approaches for identification of patient-reported outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease. Dig Liver Dis 2022; 54:483-489. [PMID: 34588153 DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2021.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Messages from an Internet forum are raw material that emerges in a natural setting (i.e., non-induced by a research situation). AIMS The FLARE-IBD project aimed at using an innovative approach consisting of collecting messages posted by patients in an Internet forum and conducting a machine-learning study (data analysis/language processing) for developing a patient-reported outcome measuring flare in inflammatory bowel disease meeting international requirements. METHODS We used web-based and machine learning approaches, in the following steps. 1) Web-scraping to collect all available posts in an Internet forum (23 656 messages) and extracting metadata from the forum. 2) Twenty patients were randomly assigned 50 extracted messages; participants indicated whether the message corresponded or not to the flare phenomenon (labeling). If yes, participants were asked to identify excerpts from the text they considered significant flare markers (annotation). 3) The set of annotated messages underwent a vocabulary analysis. RESULTS The phenomenon of flare was circumscribed with the identification of 20 surrogate flare markers classified into five dimensions with their frequency within extracted labeled data: impact on life, symptoms, extra-intestinal manifestations, drugs and environmental factors. Web-based and machine-learning approaches met international recommendations to inform the content and structure for the development of patient-reported outcomes.
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- Laetitia Ricci
- CHRU-Nancy, INSERM, Université de Lorraine, CIC 1433 Clinical Epidemiology, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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- Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
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- Ecole des mines de Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
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- Ecole des mines de Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
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- Ecole des mines de Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
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- INSERM, U1256 NGERE and gastroenterology Department, CHRU-Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
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- CHRU-Nancy, INSERM, Université de Lorraine, CIC 1433 Clinical Epidemiology, F-54000 Nancy, France; Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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- INSERM, U1256 NGERE and gastroenterology Department, CHRU-Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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- CHRU-Nancy, INSERM, Université de Lorraine, CIC 1433 Clinical Epidemiology, F-54000 Nancy, France; Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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Sheng X, Liu D, Gamage SK, Luo Y, Viennois E, Merlin D, Iyer SS. Point-of-Care Monitoring of Colitis Using Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. ACS Sens 2021; 6:698-702. [PMID: 33635063 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c02177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (IAP) was investigated as a potential biomarker to monitor colitis in a mouse model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). We developed a Point-Of-Care (POC) assay to detect IAP with a glucose meter in 15 min. We synthesized a paracetamol-bearing compound specifically cleaved by IAP to release paracetamol, which can be detected with a personal glucometer. Interleukin 10 deficient (IL 10-/-) mouse model samples were used to compare the IAP level in mice with mild or severe colitis. The results showed that fecal IAP level was significantly lower in each mouse sample with severe colitis than with mild colitis. Mice treated with anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (anti-TNF-α) to decrease inflammation exhibited a much higher level of IAP than those without treatment (IAP levels from anti-TNF-α treated vs nontreated = 2.80 U vs 0.11 U, P < 0.0001). Taken together, IAP can be considered as a potential biomarker to monitor colitis, and a rapid, user-friendly POC glucometer-based assay can be potentially used to monitor colitis levels and inflammation flareups in IBD.
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- Xiaolin Sheng
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University 788 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University 788 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University 788 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University 788 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, 790 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, 790 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
- Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia 30033, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University 788 Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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