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ArtifactAssessment that contains a series of nested ratings to document the risk of bias assessment of an Evidence resource
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fhir:Narrative.div "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: ArtifactAssessment</b><a name=\"risk-of-bias-example\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource ArtifactAssessment "risk-of-bias-example" </p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: FEvIR Object Identifier: 27751</p><p><b>date</b>: 2021-11-02T14:31:30.239Z</p><p><b>copyright</b>: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</p><p><b>lastReviewDate</b>: 2021-08-11</p><p><b>artifact</b>: <a href=\"http://fevir.net/resources/Evidence/7637\">http://fevir.net/resources/Evidence/7637</a></p><blockquote><p><b>content</b></p><p><b>informationType</b>: rating</p><p><b>type</b>: Risk of bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-type.html\">EvidenceCertaintyType[5.0.0]</a>#RiskOfBias)</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: extremely serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#extremely-serious-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator Evidence 7637 Authors (Brian S. Alper, Harold Lehmann, Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi, Joanne Dehnbostel, Ilkka Kunnamo)</span></p><p><b>freeToShare</b>: true</p><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: Inclusion of suspected COVID-19 in 1 of 3 trials may introduce selection bias, but the impact appears limited.</p><p><b>type</b>: Selection Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: no serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#no-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Muhammad Afzal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: The study design used response-adaptive randomization in which group assignment ratios could be modified during the trial on the basis of response-adaptive interim analyses to favor the assignment of patients to the treatment group showing greater benefit. The confounding by time (imbalanced randomization with time period) is not adequately reported to determine the potential influence on results or adequacy of adjusted analyses.</p><p><b>type</b>: Confounding Covariate Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#serious-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. Alper, Ilkka Kunnamo, Alfonso Iorio, Joanne Dehnbostel, Harold Lehmann, Kenneth Wilkins; clarifying explanation reviewed by Janice Tufte</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: Awareness of treatment assignment may reduce clinical decision to initiate some types of "organ support" in patients with higher risk of major bleeding.</p><p><b>type</b>: Performance Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: very serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#very-serious-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Harold Lehmann, Muhammad Afzal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: The influence of awareness of treatment assignment by the treating clinicians on the initaition of organ support (which is the primary outcome) was already addressed as Performance Bias so is not repeated here as a bias in detecting the outcome.</p><p><b>type</b>: Detection Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: no serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#no-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Muhammad Afzal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: Only 19 of 1190 (1.6%) therapeutic group and 6 of 1054 (0.6) prophylactic group were excluded after randomization.</p><p><b>type</b>: Attrition Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: no serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#no-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Muhammad Afzal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>component</b></p><p><b>summary</b>: It is unknown if the results are sensitive to the analytic method, and the stopping criteria were based on statistical significance and not magnitude of effect.</p><p><b>type</b>: Analysis Bias <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> ()</span></p><p><b>classifier</b>: very serious concern <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-certainty-rating.html\">EvidenceCertaintyRating[5.0.0]</a>#very-serious-concern)</span></p><p><b>author</b>: <span>: Brian S. 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fhir:Coding.system [ fhir:value "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/certainty-rating" ];
fhir:Coding.version [ fhir:value "5.0.0" ];
fhir:Coding.code [ fhir:value "very-serious-concern" ];
fhir:Coding.display [ fhir:value "very serious concern" ];
fhir:Coding.userSelected [ fhir:value "true"^^xsd:boolean ]
]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.author [
fhir:Reference.display [ fhir:value "Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Muhammad Afzal, Janice Tufte" ]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.component [
fhir:index 0;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "Definition of Bias related to selection of the analysis = An analysis bias due to inappropriate choice of analysis methods before the analysis is applied." ]
], [
fhir:index 1;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "There was no pre-specified frequentist analysis. There was no posthoc frequentist analysis reported." ]
], [
fhir:index 2;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "It is uncertain what a frequentist analysis would show and uncertain whether the choice of Bayesian analysis or frequentist analysis has a substantial influence on the results." ]
]
], [
fhir:index 2;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "The stopping criteria were based on statistical significance and not magnitude of effect." ];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.type [
fhir:CodeableConcept.text [ fhir:value "Early trial termination" ]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.classifier [
fhir:index 0;
fhir:CodeableConcept.coding [
fhir:index 0;
fhir:Coding.system [ fhir:value "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/certainty-rating" ];
fhir:Coding.version [ fhir:value "5.0.0" ];
fhir:Coding.code [ fhir:value "very-serious-concern" ];
fhir:Coding.display [ fhir:value "very serious concern" ];
fhir:Coding.userSelected [ fhir:value "true"^^xsd:boolean ]
]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.author [
fhir:Reference.display [ fhir:value "Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Muhammad Afzal, Janice Tufte" ]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.component [
fhir:index 0;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "There was no “minimally important difference”. So a 99% probability of having an odds ratio > 1 (even if the magnitude of effect is infinitesimal) was used to decide it was time to stop the trial." ]
]
]
]
], [
fhir:index 1;
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.informationType [ fhir:value "comment" ];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.summary [ fhir:value "Results not consistent with critically ill cohort." ];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.type [
fhir:CodeableConcept.coding [
fhir:index 0;
fhir:Coding.system [ fhir:value "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/certainty-type" ];
fhir:Coding.version [ fhir:value "5.0.0" ];
fhir:Coding.code [ fhir:value "Inconsistency" ];
fhir:Coding.display [ fhir:value "Inconsistency" ];
fhir:Coding.userSelected [ fhir:value "true"^^xsd:boolean ]
]
];
fhir:ArtifactAssessment.content.author [
fhir:Reference.display [ fhir:value "Ilkka Kunnamo" ]
]
]] .
# - ontology header ------------------------------------------------------------
[a owl:Ontology;
owl:imports fhir:fhir.ttl] .
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.
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