Investigating Data Diversity and Model Robustness of AI Applications in Palliative Care and Hospice: Protocol for Scoping Review

Selen Bozkurt   ^{1, 2, 3} , MSci, PhD ;   Soraya Fereydooni   ⁴ , BS ;   Irem Kar   ⁵ , PhD ;   Catherine Diop Chalmers   ⁶ , BS ;   Sharon L Leslie   ⁷ , MS ;   Ravi Pathak   ² , MD ;   Anne Walling   ^{8, 9} , MD, PhD ;   Charlotta Lindvall   ^{10, 11, 12, 13} , MD, PhD ;   Karl Lorenz   ^{14, 15} , MPH, MD ;   Tammie Quest   ² , MD ;   Karleen Giannitrapani   ^{14, 15 *} , MA, MPH, PhD ;   Dio Kavalieratos   ^{2 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

² Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

³ Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

⁴ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

⁶ Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁷ Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁸ Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health System, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹⁰ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

¹¹ Department of Informatics and Analytics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MD, United States

¹² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MD, United States

¹³ Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MD, United States

¹⁴ Primary Care and Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

¹⁵ Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally