ISTH VTE Common Data Elements Project Goes Live
Breakthrough Healthcare is excited to announce that the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Common Data Elements project is now available for public comment. ISTH is using the Breakthrough Clinical Data Engine platform to develop its library of CDEs and manage review and comments from the clinical research community.
The ISTH VTE Common Data Elements project creates common research data standards for VTE clinical research throughout the world. The goals for this project are to:
Establish a consistent, interoperable and universal vocabulary for clinical research that will enable accurate and reproducible capture of clinical concepts and research elements, and
Facilitate the development of clinical research, by increasing opportunities for sharing data across disparate sources (e.g., pooled analyses, individual patient-data meta-analysis)
Breakthrough worked with a team of over 50 international experts in VTE over 12 months to identify core data elements used in VTE research, and develop consensus definitions and coding standards. In addition to addressing core data elements including broad-based topics such as medical history and study variables, working groups also addressed subtopics including malignancy, predictors and diagnosis, anticoagulation, pregnancy and women's health, longitudinal outcomes, and perioperative risk.
The VTE CDE portal is now available for all members of the clinical research community to review the data elements, and provide comments on how to improve and expand the dataset.