ORCHESTRA

The European project ORCHESTRA has the aim to create a new pan-European cohort to rapidly advance the knowledge of the effects and treatment of COVID-19. Establishing processes that facilitate the merging of heterogeneous clusters of retrospective data was an essential challenge. In addition, data from new ORCHESTRA prospective studies have to be compatible with earlier collected information to be efficiently combined. They utilised and contributed to existing standard terminologies to create consistent semantic representation of over 3000 COVID-19-related variables taken from different ORCHESTRA studies. The goal is to enable the semantic interoperability of data within the existing project studies and to create a common basis of standardised elements available for the design of new COVID-19 studies. They also identified 964 variables that were commonly used in at least two ORCHESTRA studies and can therefore be directly combined for analysis purposes. Additionally, they actively contributed to global interoperability by submitting new concept requests to the terminology Standards Development Organisations.

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