COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress November 23, 2020
Brian Alper
9 people (BA, BK, EA, HL, IK, JD, KS, RC, 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 functional requirements for data exchange using EvidenceReport Resources and the need to know when content is updated. We reviewed the EvidenceReport.relatesTo.code element with 4 code choices (replaces | amends | appends | transforms) and determined we desired data in the target EvidenceReport to find the replacement, amendment, etc. So we expanded to the code list to 8 code choices (replaces | amends | appends | transforms | replacedWith | amendedWith | appendedWith | transformedWith).
The Systematic Meta-Review Project Group completed 9 search strategies for systematic reviews of steroid therapy for COVID-19, with the following numbers of search results:
- MEDLINE via PubMed -- 68
- MEDLINE via Ovid -- 127
- MEDLINE via LitCovid -- 81
- CORD-19 via CALC-19 – 169
- L-OVE via Epistemonikos – 68
- NIH OPA iSearch – 200
- EuropePMC – 118
- WHO COVID-19 Database 119
- EMBASE via Ovid – 302
These 9 collections will be combined and de-duplicated in PICO Portal. We revised the article selection process methods in the Steroids for COVID-19 Systematic Meta-Review Protocol. We will start piloting the selection process, then develop the data extraction methods and pilot that effort. Soon we will be able to finish the protocol and start the systematic meta-review.
The Statistic Model Code System Development Steering Group mapped statistic model terms to the Step 5 OCRe Ontology Mapping and Step 5 OBI Ontology Mapping. In the process we propose adding one additional term (t-test) which will also be a category for 3 more specific terms (1-sample t-test, 2-sample t-test, paired t-test).
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 (CANCELED Nov 26 for Thanksgiving holiday) |
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Thursday |
4-5 pm |
Project Management (CANCELED Nov 26 for Thanksgiving holiday) |
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Friday |
9-10 am |
Risk Of Bias Code System Development (CANCELED Nov 27 for Thanksgiving holiday) |
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Friday |
10-11 am |
Communications (Awareness, Scholarly Publications) (CANCELED Nov 27 for Thanksgiving holiday) |
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To join any of these meetings:
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