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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/74202, first published .
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Building a Global Research Network for Fair, Accountable, Interpretable, and Responsible AI in Emergency Care: Protocol for a FAIR-EC Study

Building a Global Research Network for Fair, Accountable, Interpretable, and Responsible AI in Emergency Care: Protocol for a FAIR-EC Study

Chuan Hong   1 * , PhD ;   Jonathan Chong Kai Liew   2 * , BEng ;   Jaeyong Yu   3 , PhD ;   Tomás Barry   4 , MSc, MPH, MBBCh, BAO, PhD ;   Audrey L Blewer   5, 6, 7 , MPH, PhD ;   Daniel M Buckland   8 , MS, MD, PhD ;   Tianrun Cai   9, 10 , MD ;   Won Chul Cha   11 , MD, PhD ;   Bibhas Chakraborty   1 , PhD ;   Wei Chen   12 , PhD ;   Jun Cheng   13 , PhD ;   Shu-Ling Chong   14 , MPH, MCI, MRCPCH (UK) ;   Therese Djärv   15, 16 , MD, PhD ;   Arul Earnest   17 , BSocSc (Hons), MSc, PhD ;   Matthew Engelhard   1 , MD, PhD ;   Xiuyi Fan   18, 19 , MSc, PhD ;   Mengling Feng   20, 21 , PhD ;   Jean Feng   22 , PhD ;   Huazhu Fu   23 , ME, PhD ;   Wilson Wen Bin Goh   24, 25 , MSc, PhD ;   Benjamin A Goldstein   1 , PhD ;   Jessica Gronsbell   26 , PhD ;   Andrew Fu Wah Ho   27, 28, 29 , MMed, MPH, PhD ;   Kendall Ho   30 , MD ;   Taku Iwami   31 , MD, PhD ;   Anjni Joiner   8, 32 , DO, MPH ;   Aaron Kornblith   33 , MD, MS ;   Siqi Li   34 , PhD ;   Shir Lynn Lim   20, 27, 35 , MBBS, MMED ;   Molei Liu   36 , PhD ;   Zhenghong Liu   28 , MBBS ;   Lei Lu   37 , PhD ;   Yuan Luo   38 , PhD ;   Yih Yng Ng   18 , MBBS, MPH, MBA ;   Yilin Ning   34 , PhD ;   Yohei Okada   27, 31 , MD, PhD ;   Ju Ok Park   39, 40 , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Yu Rang Park   41 , PhD ;   Junaid Razzak   42, 43 , MBBS, PhD ;   Yuzeng Shen   28 , MBBS, MMed ;   Fahad Javaid Siddiqui   27 , MBBS, MSc (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), MSc (Public Health) ;   Peter A D Steel   42 , MA, MBBS ;   Kenneth Boon Kiat Tan   28 , MBBS ;   Salinelat Teixayavong   24 , MSc ;   Bella Vakulenko-Lagun   44 , PhD ;   Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci   32 , PhD ;   Grzegorz Waligora   45, 46 , MD, PhD ;   Fei Wang   47 , PhD ;   Haibo Wang   48 , MBBS, MSc, MPH ;   Haoyuan Wang   49, 50 , MSc ;   An-Kwok Ian Wong   1, 32, 51 , MD, PhD ;   Feng Xie   52 , PhD ;   Jie Yang   53, 54, 55 , PhD ;   Yiye Zhang   42 , MS, PhD ;   Doudou Zhou   56 , PhD ;   Li Zhou   57 , MD, PhD ;   Tingting Zhu   58 , MSc, DPhil ;   Robert Neumar   59 , MD, PhD ;   David Page   1 , PhD ;   Roger Vaughan   60 , PhD ;   Marcus Eng Hock Ong   27, 28 , MBBS, MPH ;   Nan Liu   1, 34, 61 , PhD

1 Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

2 Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

3 Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

4 School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

5 Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

6 Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

7 Health Services Research and Population Health, Duke–National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

8 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

9 VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States

10 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

11 Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

12 School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

13 Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

14 KK (Kandang Kerbau) Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

15 Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

16 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

17 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

18 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

19 College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

20 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

21 Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

22 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

23 Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

24 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

25 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

26 Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

27 Duke–National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

28 Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

29 Centre for Population Health Research and Implementation, SingHealth, Singapore, Singapore

30 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

31 Department of Preventive Services, School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

32 Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

33 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

34 Centre for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

35 National University Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

36 Department of Biostatistic, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States

37 School of Life Course & Population Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

38 Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

39 College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

40 Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Hospital, Hwaseong-si, Republic of Korea

41 Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

42 New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States

43 Center of Excellence for Trauma and Emergencies, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

44 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

45 Gdańsk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland

46 Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

47 Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States

48 Research Centre of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

49 Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

50 The Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

51 Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States

52 Department of Surgery, Division of Computational Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

53 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

54 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States

55 Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

56 Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

57 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

58 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

59 Department of Emergency Medicine, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

60 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

61 NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

*these authors contributed equally

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