Abstract
Big data in pediatrics is an ocean of structured and unstructured data. Big data analysis helps to dive into the ocean of data to filter out information that can guide pediatricians in their decision making, precision diagnosis, and targeted therapy. In addition, big data and its analysis have helped in the surveillance, prevention, and performance of the health system. There has been a considerable amount of work in pediatrics that we have tried to highlight in this review and some of it has been already incorporated into the health system. Work in specialties of pediatrics is still forthcoming with the creation of a common data model and amalgamation of the huge “omics” database. The physicians entrusted with the care of children must be aware of the outcome so that they can play a role to ensure that big data algorithms have a clinically relevant effect in improving the health of their patients. They will apply the outcome of big data and its analysis in patient care through clinical algorithms or with the help of embedded clinical support alerts from the electronic medical records.
Impact
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Big data in pediatrics include structured, unstructured data, waveform data, biological, and social data.
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Big data analytics has unraveled significant information from these databases.
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This is changing how pediatricians will look at the body of available evidence and translate it into their clinical practice.
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Data harnessed so far is implemented in certain fields while in others it is in the process of development to become a clinical adjunct to the physician.
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Common databases are being prepared for future work.
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Diagnostic and prediction models when incorporated into the health system will guide the pediatrician to a targeted approach to diagnosis and therapy.
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The datasets generated during the current study are included in this published article and available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. In certain cases, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets generated during the study are available.
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Misra, S.C., Mukhopadhyay, K. Data harnessing to nurture the human mind for a tailored approach to the child. Pediatr Res 93, 357–365 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-02320-4
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