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Scientific Evidence Code System (SEVCO) Expert Working Group �‘Town Hall Meeting’

APRIL 14, 2022

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Why do we need another code system?

What is the problem we are trying to solve?

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How did this effort begin?

https://fevir.net/resources/Project/27845

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Study Design,
Risk of Bias,
Statistic type and
Statistic Model.

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Transparency
Accessibility
Consensus
Universal

Principles that guided our protocol development

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The result was a thirteen step protocol to develop these necessary code systems.

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Statistic Type

Statistic Model

Statistic Code System

Risk of Bias

Code System

Study Design

Code System

Statistic Code System

Scientific Evidence Code System (SEVCO)

https://fevir.net/resources/CodeSystem/27270

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Navigating the Code System on FEvIR.net

https://fevir.net/resources/CodeSystem/27270

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Ok I’m here, now what do I do?

https://fevir.net/resources/CodeSystem/27270

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You can continue to click on these child terms until you get to the bottom of the hierarchy. Here we have “Selection Bias”.

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How do we manage this project?

Day	Time (Eastern)	Team
Monday	8-9 am	Project Management Working Group
Monday	9-10 am	Usability Research Project Working Group
Monday	1-2 pm	Terminology and Ontology Working Group
Tuesday	11am-12 pm	Common Metadata Framework Working Group
Tuesday	2-3 pm	Research Design Working Group
Wednesday	8-9 am	Knowledge Ecosystem Liaison Working Group
Wednesday	9-10 am	Statistic Standard and Terminology Working Group
Thursday	9-10 am	Computable EBM Tools Development Working Group
Thursday	10-11 am	EBM Decision Map Working Group
Thursday	4-5 pm	Project Management Working Group
Friday	9-10 am	Risk of Bias Terminology and Tooling Working Group
Friday	10-11 am	Communications (Awareness, Scholarly Publications) WG
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You are welcome to join us!

Please email balper@computablepublishing.com with any questions.

For all of the above meetings: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

+1 929-346-7156 United States, New York City (Toll)

Conference ID: 324 918 025#

Local numbers

Meeting support by Computable Publishing LLC

The SEVCO code system is part of the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator Initiative (COKA). We have four meetings scheduled weekly for the development of this code system. Each meeting focuses on a different aspect as highlighted.

All meetings are open to everyone:

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Benefits of Participation

Benefits of Participation:

You will help create a code system to make communicating scientific evidence more efficient.

You will also receive acknowledgement for contributions.

The voting can be done online without requiring presence at a defined meeting time.

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How is a SEVCO term developed?:

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April Fools Day Example:

It may seem as though we are all work and no play-- but on April Fools day we decided to have some fun.

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April Fool’s Day Term comments

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Scientific Evidence Code System

Progress -to-Date 4-14-2022

	#Terms	#Approved	%Approved
Study Design	58	45	78%
Risk of Bias	262	104	37%
Statistics	223	32	14%
SEVCO (Total)	543	181	33%

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Citations:

Alper BS, Dehnbostel J, Robinson K, Subbian V, Afzal M, Soares A, Kunnamo I, Shahin K, Duteau M, Lehmann H, Fedorowicz Z, McClure R, Thabane L. For the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Initiative. Code System Development Protocol. Created September 1, 2020. Last revised September 17, 2020.

https://osf.io/3akjv/?view_only=65c2ab5809c1484895d4fb03a2a9ee84��

Alper, Brian & Dehnbostel, Joanne & Afzal, Muhammad & Subbian, Vignesh & Soares, Andrey & Kunnamo, Ilkka & Shahin, Khalid & McClure, Robert. (2021). Making Science Computable: Developing Code Systems for Statistics, Study Design, and Risk of Bias. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 115. 103685. 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103685.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046421000149?via%3Dihub

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Discussion