Join us for the upcoming FIU-RCMI Research In Progess Seminar, CTNote: A Software Tool to Standardize Outcomes and Measure Algorithmic Racial Bias in Opioid Clinical Trials, facilitated by FIU-RCMI Pilot Grantee Dr. Gabriel Odom. 

In this talk, Dr. Odom will discuss how clinical trials assess clinical efficacy of treatments in opioid use disorder, but there is no gold standard treatment outcome. Further, the dozens of surrogate clinical trial outcomes used in this vacuum of objective specificity are inconsistently defined across clinical trials and vary in performance metrics across racial and ethnic subgroups. This project creates rigorously defined algorithms of treatment failure and empirically evaluates them for measurement variance (bias) within racial/ethnic subgroups using harmonized data from three clinical trials in opioid use disorder.