OHDSI Digest – October 31st, 2016

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
CDM working group meeting – Tuesday at 1pm ET
http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:workgroups:cdm-wg
Meeting number: 739 593 081
Meeting password: OMOP

Patient-Level Prediction working group meeting – Wednesday at 12pm ET
Join the meeting: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/972917661

Architecture working group meeting – Thursday at 1pm ET
Webex: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?service=1&main_url=%2Fmc0901lsp13%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Djjconferencing%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D283835502%26MTID%3Dmb7e839a762fbdaab0608f27500679223%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAALN0cAEoYypZD0FLlSTucGjiYMi0Jtc0aswBjTXyAgSWKQK7Y5vkbh5XEyTNltfEKaifFNjSDCDBoLRT5dd5cFq0%26FrameSet%3D2&siteurl=jjconferencing&nomenu=true
Call-in toll-free number: 1-877-5659999 (US)
Call-in number: 1-617-9392838 (US)
Attendee access code: 498 480 37

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Symposium Recordings – Recordings from the symposium are currently in post-production and will be uploaded shortly. A forum announcement and email will be sent to all registered participants when they have been made available. We’re hoping to make the recordings available in the next couple days.

Symposium Poster Prize – Posters from the 2016 OHDSI Symposium have been uploaded onto the OHDSI library. We’re now inviting the OHDSI community to vote on their favorite posters. A best poster will be selected for each of the following topics:

– Observational Data Management
– Methodological Research
– Analytics,Technology and Infrastructure
– Clinical Applications: Clinical Characterization

Cast your vote here:
https://docs.google.com/a/ohdsi.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSege_RoSOh-gdI87ac0rtp2SwEC0rDxyK_AyrcvNVFcZXi59Q/viewform
The deadline to submit your vote is Friday, November 11th at 5pm ET

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Incidence of Exposure of Patients in the United States to Multiple Drugs for Which Pharmacogenomic Guidelines Are Available
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164972

Preparing Nursing Home Data from Multiple Sites for Clinical Research – A Case Study Using Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics
http://repository.edm-forum.org/egems/vol4/iss1/21/
Pharmacogenetic polymorphism as an independent risk factor for frequent hospitalizations in older adults with polypharmacy: a pilot study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27789970

Does aspirin use reduce the risk for cancer?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27789660

Impact of statins on risk of new onset diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study using the Korean National Health Insurance claims database.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27785041

GIST 2.0: A scalable multi-trait metric for quantifying population representativeness of individual clinical studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27600407