Gregory W Hruby1, Julia Hoxha1, Praveen Chandar Ravichandran1, Eneida A Mendonça2, David A Hanauer3, Chunhua Weng4. 1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY, New York, USA. 2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. 3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 4. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY, New York, USA. Electronic address: chunhua@columbia.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The Patient, Intervention, Control/Comparison, and Outcome (PICO) framework is an effective technique for framing a clinical question. We aim to develop the counterpart of PICO to structure clinical research data needs. METHODS: We use a data-driven approach to abstracting key concepts representing clinical research data needs by adapting and extending an expert-derived framework originally developed for defining cancer research data needs. We annotated clinical trial eligibility criteria, EHR data request logs, and data queries to electronic health records (EHR), to extract and harmonize concept classes representing clinical research data needs. We evaluated the class coverage, class preservation from the original framework, schema generalizability, schema understandability, and schema structural correctness through a semi-structured interview with eight multidisciplinary domain experts. We iteratively refined the schema based on the evaluations. RESULTS: Our data-driven schema preserved 68% of the 63 classes from the original framework and covered 88% (73/82) of the classes proposed by evaluators. Class coverage for participants of different backgrounds ranged from 60% to 100% with a median value of 95% agreement among the individual evaluators. The schema was found understandable and structurally sound. CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed schema may serve as the counterpart to PICO for improving the research data needs communication between researchers and informaticians.
OBJECTIVES: The Patient, Intervention, Control/Comparison, and Outcome (PICO) framework is an effective technique for framing a clinical question. We aim to develop the counterpart of PICO to structure clinical research data needs. METHODS: We use a data-driven approach to abstracting key concepts representing clinical research data needs by adapting and extending an expert-derived framework originally developed for defining cancer research data needs. We annotated clinical trial eligibility criteria, EHR data request logs, and data queries to electronic health records (EHR), to extract and harmonize concept classes representing clinical research data needs. We evaluated the class coverage, class preservation from the original framework, schema generalizability, schema understandability, and schema structural correctness through a semi-structured interview with eight multidisciplinary domain experts. We iteratively refined the schema based on the evaluations. RESULTS: Our data-driven schema preserved 68% of the 63 classes from the original framework and covered 88% (73/82) of the classes proposed by evaluators. Class coverage for participants of different backgrounds ranged from 60% to 100% with a median value of 95% agreement among the individual evaluators. The schema was found understandable and structurally sound. CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed schema may serve as the counterpart to PICO for improving the research data needs communication between researchers and informaticians.
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