Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Multiple imputation for analysis of incomplete data in distributed health data networks

  • Changgee Chang,
  • Yi Deng,
  • Xiaoqian Jiang,
  • Qi Long

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19270-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Distributed health data networks (DHDNs) leverage data from multiple healthcare systems, but often face major analytical challenges in the presence of missing data. This paper develops distributed multiple imputation methods that do not require sharing subject-level data across health systems.