COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress November 20, 2020
Brian Alper
6 people (BA, BK, JD, JR, MA, VS) 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 we have 62 people signed up from 27 countries In 6 continents (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brasil, 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 Risk of Bias Code System Development Steering Group started the Step 5 CatalogOfBias Ontology Mapping. However, we are taking a different approach than a pure “Step 5” mapping of the previously set terms. We are taking a “Step 3” approach to review each term in the Catalog of Bias, and either map it to an existing term in the Risk of Bias Code System, or determine where to add the term to expand the Risk of Bias Code System. So far we have evaluated 8 terms in the Catalog of Bias and added 7 new terms to the Risk of Bias Code System. The corresponding concepts include:
- Participant Selection Bias
- Non-representative sample
- Admission rate bias – new term added from Catalog of Bias
- Comparator Selection Bias – mapped to Allocation bias (in Catalog of Bias)
- Attrition Bias – mapped to Attrition bias (in Catalog of Bias)
- Detection Bias
- Detection Bias – Imbalance – mapped to Ascertainment bias (in Catalog of Bias)
- Detection Bias – Confounding Influence
- Apprehension bias – new term added from Catalog of Bias
- Detection Bias – Availability Bias – new term added from Catalog of Bias
- Analysis Bias
- Analysis Selection Bias
- Analysis Selection Bias – Availability Bias – new term added from Catalog of Bias
- Reporting Bias
- Selective theory reporting - new term added from Catalog of Bias (which used the term All’s well literature bias)
- Selective reporting – Availability bias – new term added from Catalog of Bias
- Biases of rhetoric – new term added from Catalog of Bias
The Communications Work Group discussed multiple EBMonFHIR and COKA mentions and presentations at AMIA Virtual Conference this past week. Participants felt these concepts were well received despite technological limitations in the conference limiting bidirectional audio participation. Upcoming presentations (December 2-5) include Guidelines International Network/North America webinar, Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials webinar, and International Conference for Knowledge Management. The group discussed interest in disseminating case examples of the Clinical Trial Results Reporter and furthering research proposals for it. Finally the group decided to cancel next week’s meeting on the day after Thanksgiving.
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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