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Outcomes and disparities for patients with aortic stenosis, classified by echocardiogram data
Disparities in time to treatment and treatment outcomes exist for people with severe aortic stenosis receiving TAVR and SAVR procedures. We studied the rate of people who receive...
Cardiac catheterization reports now available in Truveta Data at scale to advance cardiovascular research
Healthcare data traditionally has been too siloed, inaccessible, and messy to be useful for research. And one of the biggest challenges has been that critical information about a...
Real-time monitoring of respiratory virus-associated hospitalizations: Trends from October 2019 through January 2024
Overall, the rate of hospitalizations associated with respiratory viruses has decreased throughout January 2024 (-35.3%) compared to December 2023. The largest decreases were...
Using echocardiogram data to classify aortic stenosis severity
Aortic stenosis – the narrowing of the valve between the lower left heart chamber (left ventricle) and the aorta – is commonly diagnosed with an echocardiogram and staged...
Generating comparative effectiveness insights to accelerate therapy adoption
The National Academy of Medicine has estimated that less than half of all medical care in the US is supported by adequate evidence of effectiveness. The proliferation of...
Thin ice and slippery snow: Winter injury trends
We found 13.1 emergency department visits for falls on snow or ice per 10,000 emergency department visits during wintery months; with 3x higher rates happening in states with...
COVID-19 pandemic and mental health: Exploring time trends for first-time anxiety diagnoses and prescriptions
Truveta Research explored whether the rates of first-time anxiety diagnoses or first-time anxiety-related prescriptions were higher during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the...
Transforming heart health research with EHR data
Heart disease is a massive crisis in this country. Ranking as the leading cause of death in the US for more than a century, heart disease takes a life approximately every 33...
Raising the bar: Truveta’s approach to real-world data quality
Clinical trials and registries have traditionally been the gold standard for high-quality healthcare data, offering complete longitudinal records across data domains in a clean,...