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    EXPECT-NLP: An Integrated Pipeline and User Interface for Exploring Patient Preferences Directly from Patient-Generated Text

    Understanding patient preferences for drug therapies can help to inform drug development, reimbursement decisions by insurers, and shared decision-making by patients and clinicians. Typically, preferences are ...

    David Johnson, Nick Dragojlovic, Nicola Kopac, Yifu Chen in Multimodal AI in Healthcare (2023)

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    A perspective on life-cycle health technology assessment and real-world evidence for precision oncology in Canada

    Health technology assessment (HTA) can be used to make healthcare systems more equitable and efficient. Advances in precision oncology are challenging conventional thinking about HTA. Precision oncology advanc...

    Dean A. Regier, Samantha Pollard, Melanie McPhail, Tania Bubela in npj Precision Oncology (2022)

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    Develo** Data Sharing Models for Health Research with Real-World Data: A Sco** Review of Patient and Public Preferences

    For researchers to realize the benefits of real-world data in healthcare requires broader access to patient data than is currently possible given siloed data systems. To facilitate evidence generation, infrast...

    Anna Hermansen, Dean A. Regier, Samantha Pollard in Journal of Medical Systems (2022)

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    Allocating healthcare resources to genomic testing in Canada: latest evidence and current challenges

    Precision medicine (PM) informed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) poses challenges for health technology assessment (HTA). To date, there has been limited reimbursement of genomic testing with NGS in Canada...

    Deirdre Weymann, Nick Dragojlovic, Samantha Pollard in Journal of Community Genetics (2022)

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    Genomic Testing for Relapsed and Refractory Lymphoid Cancers: Understanding Patient Values

    New clinical genomic assays for lymphoid cancers allow for improved disease stratification and prognostication. At present, clinical implementation has been appropriately limited, owing to a paucity of evidenc...

    Sarah Costa, Dean A. Regier in The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Re… (2021)

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    Balancing uncertainty with patient autonomy in precision medicine

    By the nature of their unknown pathogenicity, variants of unknown significance (VUS) should not inform clinical decisions for genetic carrier testing; nevertheless, VUS are increasingly returned to patients. W...

    Samantha Pollard, Sophie Sun, Dean A. Regier in Nature Reviews Genetics (2019)