COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress November 30, 2020
Brian Alper
7 people (BA, BK, EA, JD, KS, MA, TN-R) 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 discussed 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.
o The key goal: Demonstrate data exchange using Citation, Evidence, EvidenceVariable, Group and EvidenceReport resources to communicate clinical trial and systematic review findings.
o We tentatively scheduled a Track Orientation webinar for Monday, December 14, 2020 at 10 am Eastern to introduce this Track to interested participants.
o On Friday December 4 we can start preparing for this Track Orientation, potentially re-using material from any of the following presentations:
§ December 2:
- GIN NORTH AMERICA WEBINAR SERIES—TOOLS
- BRINGING EVIDENCE AND GUIDELINES INTO THE DIGITAL AGE
- December 2, 2020 1 pm ET (12 pm CT; 11 am MT; 10 am PT)
- Registration required at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3815464089092941069
§ December 3:
Mark your calendars for the CCTES Seminar upcoming on Thursday 3 December at 8:30a ET:
“Making Science Computable: EBMonFHIR and COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator” featuring Brian Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, and Khalid Shahin of Computable Publishing LLC.
Tune in by zoom:
https://jh.zoom.us/j/94160334006?pwd=SmhvdzZEOExVSEtINklFRURFcHdsZz09
Please distribute this invite widely throughout your networks.
This seminar will be recorded and upload to the CCTES YouTube Channel.
§ December 4:
· International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) 2020 http://www.ickm.net/?page_id=1892
· session 6 (December 4 at 10:45-12:15 ET)
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Interoperable and Computable Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) on FHIR |
Andrey Soares, Lisa Schilling and Brian Alper |
o Muhammad Afzal discussed interest to participate in the Connectathon with a thyroid cancer clinical trial, specifically to develop AI support for data extraction. We reviewed the Clinical Trial Results Reporter in detail and suggested identifying the type of data to send or receive to make a specific goal for the Connectathon.
The Systematic Meta-Review Project Group reviewed the 656 de-duplicated results from 9 search strategies for systematic reviews of steroid therapy for COVID-19. There was not an obvious method to increase specificity without losing sensitivity for the searches. We modified the Steroids for COVID-19 Systematic Meta-Review Protocol to add “search date before 2020” as an exclusion reason, and to re-order the exclusion reasons for what we believe will be a more efficient article selection process. Next steps are to pilot the selection efforts to confirm we have a feasible process in preparation for this systematic meta-review.
The Statistic Model Code System Development Steering Group mapped statistic model (and statistic type) terms to the Step 5 CTO Ontology Mapping (no statistic terms found) and Step 5 SCO Ontology Mapping.
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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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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To join any of these meetings:
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Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, FAMIA
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