Weekly OHDSI Digest – November 25th, 2019

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK

OHDSI Community Call  – Tuesday at 12pm ET
Webex: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=96139.930901412523321531221112212141232121131213113112112121536

Women of OHDSI WG meeting – Tuesday at 2pm ET
Webex: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M92ACRLNGM2A7RRJK5B9SCHK2C-D1JL

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting  – Wednesday at 10 ET
URL: https://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation:oncology:development_schedule

You can find a full list of upcoming OHDSI meetings here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X0oa9R-V8cwpF1WQZDJOqcXZguPKRiCZ6XrQ2zXMiuQ/edit

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Two OHDSI studies published in Lancet!  Another OHDSI study has been published in Lancet! The EHDEN team’s Rheumatology paper is available here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(19)30075-X/fulltext
If you haven’t yet checked out the LEGEND hypertension study in the Lancet, you can check it out here:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32317-7/fulltext
For more info on the study, check out our press release:
https://www.ohdsi.org/ohdsi-news-updates/legend-hypertension-study/

2019 OHDSI Symposium – Tutorial Videos  Videos from the 2019 OHDSI tutorials are officially online! You can access tutorial videos and materials here:
OMOP Common Data Model and Standardized Vocabularies
Cohort Definition/Phenotyping
Patient-level Prediction
Population-level Estimation
Data Quality
Extraction, Transformation, and Load Process (ETL)

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
On the convergence of the maximum likelihood estimator for the transition rate under a 2-state symmetric model.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754778

Diabetes mellitus risk for 102 drugs and drug combinations used in patients with bipolar disorder.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31744781

Risks and clinical predictors of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma diagnoses in adults with diagnosed NAFLD: real-world study of 18 million patients in four European cohorts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31104631

A method for harmonization of clinical abbreviation and acronym sense inventories.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30414475

Predicting the need for a reduced drug dose, at first prescription.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349060