COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress December 8, 2020
Brian Alper
7 people (BA, IK, JD, JJ, KS, MT, TN-R) participated today in up to 2 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 Evidence Evaluation and Reporting Tools Development Work Group discussed multiple developments:
- We suggested UMLS as an internationally free source for codable concepts for creating Group and EvidenceVariable Resources for the SRDR+ platform. The rationale for UMLS is that SNOMED CT is not freely available in all countries. This may require a UMLS-to-SNOMED CT translation for later integration with clinical resources that use SNOMED-CT codes.
- For the next major tooling developments for COKA, we anticipate a Systematic Review Results Reporter to support the data extraction needs for the Steroids for COVID-19 Systematic Meta-Review Protocol.
- The most recent development is the HAPI server has been updated to support FHIR version 5.4.0 which is he FHIR snapshot needed to support the EvidenceReport and related resources. Now that this HAPI server is available we can set up a “Fast Evidence Interoperability Resources (FEvIR)” server, or a specialized instance of a HAPI server to support the Evidence-related resources. This will provide a shareable space across the multiple tools and projects we are developing.
The Study Design Code System Development Steering Group reviewed the draft Study Design Code System for simplicity of application. The process led to some re-ordering of categories, splitting the Group Assignment category into 2 different categories, and moving the Clinical Research Regulatory Subsets category as a subset of Clinical Trial in the Context category. The latest term set (with changes highlighted) has 56 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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To join any of these meetings:
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