add MeSH "Minority Groups" and related SDoH concepts

[DSLituiev]

Describe the problem in content MeSH term for "Minority Groups" D008913 is missing

Expected adjustments

concept_name	concept_code	vocabulary_id	How to find it
"Minority Groups"	D008913	MeSH	https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D008913
"Social Group"	D000092882	MeSH	https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D000092882
"Ethnic and Racial Minorities"	D000091762	MeSH	https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D000091762
"Social Determinants of Health"	D064890	MeSH	https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D064890

I also believe one would need an "is a" concept relationship for "Social Determinants of Health": MeSH:D064890 <> LOINC:LG41762-2 etc

[cgreich]

Right now, only MeSH terms for conditions and drugs are supported. And drugs are in limbo, because RxNorm stopped supporting them.

Interested in helping to maintain MeSH?

[TinyRickC137]

Dear @DSLituiev,

We plan to do a MeSh release in May according to the schedule, previously published and announced during the vocabulary working group session.

These concepts will be included in the release. However, without the links to LOINCs

[DSLituiev]

@TinyRickC137 What about the policy of cross-linking equivalent terms between LOINC and SNOMED?

[TinyRickC137]

@DSLituiev do you have an interest in supporting these relationships? We are working on a better and more transparent way for everyone in the community to contribute to OHDSI Vocabularies. Until these guidelines are released, which is going to happen very soon, we stick to the roadmap.

As Christian mentioned, currently only MeSH terms for conditions and drugs are supported, including links to SNOMED. Do you know a good source for MeSH - LOINC links and are you interested in helping with this?

[DSLituiev]

Please let me know what help would be of use here

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As Christian mentioned, currently only MeSH terms for conditions and drugs are supported, including links to SNOMED. Do you know a good source for MeSH - LOINC links and are you interested in helping with this?

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[TinyRickC137]

@DSLituiev finding a reliable source for the desired relationships is a good start.

Please, follow us for more contributor guidelines, they are going to be released soon.

[DSLituiev]

@TinyRickC137

• please let me know on which channel to follow you for the updates
• what is considered a reliable source? What is the policy about using UMLS for establishing equivalence, e.g. in case of "SDoH" per se? Did anyone with the OHDSI evaluate the UMLS license for potential violation of use when deriving mappings based on UMLS?

[DSLituiev]

• alternative sources, reliability up to discussion, may be:
  • literal match (as in the case of "Social determinants of health")
  • similarity in semantic space (embedding function and thresholds to be defined)
  • other methods to include is-a and other types of relationships using ML methods like this one

[TinyRickC137]

@DSLituiev you are right, UMLS is a reliable source. The problem is that the OHDSI Roadmap has been released and MeSH is not a priority there. We will release a new version of this vocabulary and even fix some bugs, but we are not planning to refactor relationships. We are now testing the whole integrity of the vocabularies and can't implement more changes so close to the release.

We release our updates on the OHDSI Forum and during the Workgroup calls.

You can implement changes to MeSH locally for now.

[DSLituiev]

Is there a way to create a branch for next release so that the relations we create are tracked for the next release?

Which exactly work group?

[TinyRickC137]

@DSLituiev There will be a way.

@aostropolets is working on Community contribution guidelines. MeSH may be a good first use case to collaborate in coding.

CDM Workgroup, especially Vocabulary Subgroup.