CDM Inspection R Package

[PRijnbeek]

Proposal made by: @PRijnbeek

Motivation

The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) project has multiple yearly Open Calls for financial support for data partners to map their data to the OMOP-CDM, for more information see the EHDEN website. In addition, EHDEN is training Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Europe to provide services to the data partners to map their data to the OMOP-CDM. A large number of these SMEs are now active all over Europe as shown in the SME Catalogue.

Quality control of the mapping is clearly important and therefore a procedure has been developed called SME Inspection in which a certified SME performs a series of tests on the CDM and produces a report that is send to the EHDEN Team for review. The goal of the inspection report is to provide insight into the completeness, transparency and quality of the performed Extraction Transform, and Load (ETL) process and the readiness of the data partner to be onboarded in the EHDEN and OHDSI data networks and participate in research studies. If the SME that is performing the inspection was not involved in the ETL implementation we advise to use a two-stage inspection process. A first inspection report can be made to provide recommendations to the Data Partner on how to improve the ETL and processes, if necessary. Ideally, this includes a site visit of the SME after providing instructions on the content of the report. The Data Partner can share this draft report with EHDEN to obtain additional input. Once the improvements have been made the final report can be created by the SME and send to EHDEN for approval.

Proposal for Implementation

• Initial definition of features with team @MaximMoinat, @solventrix, @clairblacketer, @ericaVoss
• Consulting first set of certified SMEs driven by @PRijnbeek
• Prototyping by @PRijnbeek
• Testing by WP4 team
• Testing by External Partners (@larshalvorsen and others)
• Rollout to Covid-19 Participants
• Present at EHDEN DP/SME Call by @PRijnbeek
• Present at HADES team meeting by @PRijnbeek
• Communicate at OHDSI Tuesday meeting to get additional input

Contribution

Discussion related to the tool development will take place here.

The Roadmap is defined here.

Status

First Release created, further improvements based on experience in Data Partner Calls and from input from users