COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress December 7, 2020
Brian Alper
8 people (BA, BK, EA, JD, KS, LS, LT, RC) participated today in up to 3 active working group meetings.
You are welcome to join the Code System Development effort -- see Invitation to join Expert Working Group. At this time we currently have 61 people signed up from 27 countries In 6 continents (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States)
The Project Management Group covered several developments today:
- We made a change to the EvidenceReport Resource StructureDefinition to change the binding of EvidenceReportType code system from Extensible to Example. Detailed discussion about actual use cases revealed we only made an original code system for example purposes, and it will be up to implementers how to use the type element.
- We identified an opportunity to coordinate across the Evidence Ecosystem with FHIR Resources by suggesting an enhancement to the ResearchStudy Resource StructureDefinition to add a results element which can Reference(EvidenceReport) as a way to connect research results with research studies. An example of such a use case can be ClinicalTrials.gov using ResearchStudy for registry entries and EvidenceReport for study results.
- The author group for the Risk of Bias Code System report to convert to a publication soon, based on those who expressed interest, is now Brian Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Harold Lehmann, Muhammad Afzal, Lisa Schilling, and Khalid Shahin.
- We still need to prepare an orientation presentation for the Connectathon:
- The 2021-01 Evidence-Based Medicine/COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (EBM/COKA) Connectathon Track Proposed for the Virtual HL7 FHIR Connectathon 26 on January 13-15, 2021.
§ The key goal: Demonstrate data exchange using Citation, Evidence, EvidenceVariable, Group and EvidenceReport resources to communicate clinical trial and systematic review findings.
§ We scheduled a Track Orientation webinar for Monday, December 14, 2020 at 10 am Eastern to introduce this Track to interested participants.
The Systematic Meta-Review Project Group modified the Steroids for COVID-19 Systematic Meta-Review Protocol to combine and re-order the exclusion reasons in article selection efforts for optimal efficiency. We are hoping to have the protocol ready for sign-off for posting/publication on Monday, December 14 and start the formal search and selection process with search dates of Tuesday, December 15.
The Statistic Model Code System Development Steering Group reviewed the draft Statistic Model Code System for simplicity of application. The process led to some minor re-ordering of categories, identifying 2 pairs of same concepts in different places so we added parenthetical synonyms to capture them as equivalent terms, and adding 4 new terms for Regression Model characteristics. The latest term set (with changes highlighted) has 71 draft terms and can be found here.
To get involved or stay informed:
You can learn more about the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) project at https://www.gps.health/covid19_knowledge_accelerator.html
You can find all the progress notes at a Google Drive folder for the project and each Work Group has a Progress Report document where you can find the details.
You can join any of the groups that are now meeting in the following schedule:
Weekly Meeting Schedule
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Time (Eastern) |
Team |
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Monday |
7-8 am |
Project Management |
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Monday |
9-10 am |
Systematic Meta-Review |
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Monday |
4-5 pm |
Statistic Model Code System Development |
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Tuesday |
10-11 am |
Evidence Evaluation and Reporting Tools Development |
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Tuesday |
2-3 pm |
Study Design Code System Development |
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Wednesday |
8-9 am |
Knowledge Ecosystem Liaison |
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Wednesday |
9-10 am |
Statistic Type Code System Development |
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Thursday |
9-10 am |
Content Citation and Classification Tools Development |
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Thursday |
4-5 pm |
Project Management |
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Friday |
9-10 am |
Risk Of Bias Code System Development |
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Friday |
10-11 am |
Communications (Awareness, Scholarly Publications) |
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