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MIT-LCP / mimic-iii-paper

Repository for the paper describing MIMIC-III
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201635
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Discuss efforts towards common data models #13

Closed tompollard closed 8 years ago

tompollard commented 8 years ago

More broadly re: the above, there have been efforts to convert MIMIC to other data models (e.g. https://github.com/shamsbayzid/mimic-cdm). This would seem to be a valuable aspect that could be touted in this paper. Perhaps in the future, MIMIC could offer a version of the dataset in such format so as to leverage predictive models, analytics tools etc generated organizations such as OHDSI.

The collaborative research approaches described in the conclusion are appreciated MIMIC-III will undoubtedly be a highly valuable asset to the research community.

tompollard commented 8 years ago

The following chunk has been added to the collaborative research section:

Alongside work on the centralised codebase, we support efforts to transform MIMIC into common data models such the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP-CDM) \cite{cite8}. Developing these common models may help to facilitate integration with complementary datasets and to enable the application of generalised analytic tools. Important efforts to map concepts to standardised clinical ontologies are also underway.

See commit: https://github.com/MIT-LCP/mimic-iii-paper/commit/7513b29b6f8a4962ff7f54707d3cccc1cffacaa7#diff-a45f2757f94fd2337ebf7ddd018c11a2L308