The COVID-NMA Project: Building an Evidence Ecosystem for the COVID-19 Pandemic

doi:10.7326/M20-5261

Editorial

. 2020 Dec 15;173(12):1015-1017.

doi: 10.7326/M20-5261. Epub 2020 Sep 15.

The COVID-NMA Project: Building an Evidence Ecosystem for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Isabelle Boutron¹, Anna Chaimani¹, Joerg J Meerpohl², Asbjørn Hróbjartsson³, Declan Devane⁴, Gabriel Rada⁵, David Tovey⁶, Giacomo Grasselli⁷, Philippe Ravaud¹; COVID-NMA Consortium

Collaborators, Affiliations

Collaborators

COVID-NMA Consortium:
Solaf Alawadhi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Chiara Arienti, David Auber, Camila Ávila, Aïda Bafeta, Fulvia Baldassarre, Rita Banzi, Julien Barnier, Julia Baudry, Hanna Bergman, Claudia Bollig, Hilary Bonnet, Marinette Bouet, Mohand Boughanem, Isabelle Boutron, Brian Buckley, Guillaume Cabanac, Anna Chaiman, Sarah Charpy, David Chavalarias, Yaolong Chen, Astrid Chevance, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Elise Cogo, Françoise Conil, Emmanuel Coquery, Mauricia Davidson, Laura De Nale, Declan Devane, Elise Diard, Taoufiq Dkaki, Bastien Doreau, Merwan El Asri, Theodoros Evrenoglou, Alice Fabbri, Robin Featherstone, Gilles Feron, Gabriel Ferrand, Leopold Fezeu, Mathilde Fouet, Joly Ghanawi, Lina Ghosn El Chall, Carolina Graña, Giacomo Grasselli, François Grolleau, Benoit Groz, Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Candyce Hamel, Camilla Hansen, Nicholas Henschke, Ameer Hohlfeld, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Chantal Julia, Dimitris Mavridis, Joerg J Meerpohl, Brice Meyer, Silvia Minozzi, Jose G Moreno, Nivantha Naidoo, Van Thu Nguyen, Theodora Oikonomidi, Matthew Page, Jennifer Petkovic, Elizabeth Pienaar, Olivier Pierre, Katrin Probyn, Fiona Quirke, Gabriel Rada, Philippe Ravaud, Pierre Ripoll, Carolina Riveros, Philippe Rivière, Marie Sauvant, Jelena Savovic, Christine Schmucker, Yanina Sguassero, Jonathan Sterne, Farouk Toumani, David Tovey, Gemma Villanueva, Romain Vuillemot, Jun Xia, Xuan Yu, Emina Zoletic, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Affiliations

¹ Université de Paris, Centre of Research Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm, and Cochrane France, Paris, France (I.B., A.C., P.R.).
² Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, and Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany (J.J.M.).
³ Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense, University of Southern Denmark, and Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark (A.H.).
⁴ Evidence Synthesis Ireland, Cochrane Ireland, and HRB Trials Methodology Research Network, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (D.D.).
⁵ Epistemonikos Foundation and UC Evidence Center, Cochrane Chile Associated Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (G.R.).
⁶ Cochrane France, Paris, France (D.T.).
⁷ Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and University of Milan, Milan, Italy (G.G.).

PMID: 32931326
PMCID: PMC7518109
DOI: 10.7326/M20-5261

Editorial

The COVID-NMA Project: Building an Evidence Ecosystem for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Isabelle Boutron et al. Ann Intern Med. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 15;173(12):1015-1017.

doi: 10.7326/M20-5261. Epub 2020 Sep 15.

Authors

Isabelle Boutron¹, Anna Chaimani¹, Joerg J Meerpohl², Asbjørn Hróbjartsson³, Declan Devane⁴, Gabriel Rada⁵, David Tovey⁶, Giacomo Grasselli⁷, Philippe Ravaud¹; COVID-NMA Consortium

Collaborators

COVID-NMA Consortium:
Solaf Alawadhi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Chiara Arienti, David Auber, Camila Ávila, Aïda Bafeta, Fulvia Baldassarre, Rita Banzi, Julien Barnier, Julia Baudry, Hanna Bergman, Claudia Bollig, Hilary Bonnet, Marinette Bouet, Mohand Boughanem, Isabelle Boutron, Brian Buckley, Guillaume Cabanac, Anna Chaiman, Sarah Charpy, David Chavalarias, Yaolong Chen, Astrid Chevance, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Elise Cogo, Françoise Conil, Emmanuel Coquery, Mauricia Davidson, Laura De Nale, Declan Devane, Elise Diard, Taoufiq Dkaki, Bastien Doreau, Merwan El Asri, Theodoros Evrenoglou, Alice Fabbri, Robin Featherstone, Gilles Feron, Gabriel Ferrand, Leopold Fezeu, Mathilde Fouet, Joly Ghanawi, Lina Ghosn El Chall, Carolina Graña, Giacomo Grasselli, François Grolleau, Benoit Groz, Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Candyce Hamel, Camilla Hansen, Nicholas Henschke, Ameer Hohlfeld, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Chantal Julia, Dimitris Mavridis, Joerg J Meerpohl, Brice Meyer, Silvia Minozzi, Jose G Moreno, Nivantha Naidoo, Van Thu Nguyen, Theodora Oikonomidi, Matthew Page, Jennifer Petkovic, Elizabeth Pienaar, Olivier Pierre, Katrin Probyn, Fiona Quirke, Gabriel Rada, Philippe Ravaud, Pierre Ripoll, Carolina Riveros, Philippe Rivière, Marie Sauvant, Jelena Savovic, Christine Schmucker, Yanina Sguassero, Jonathan Sterne, Farouk Toumani, David Tovey, Gemma Villanueva, Romain Vuillemot, Jun Xia, Xuan Yu, Emina Zoletic, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Affiliations

¹ Université de Paris, Centre of Research Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm, and Cochrane France, Paris, France (I.B., A.C., P.R.).
² Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, and Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany (J.J.M.).
³ Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense, University of Southern Denmark, and Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark (A.H.).
⁴ Evidence Synthesis Ireland, Cochrane Ireland, and HRB Trials Methodology Research Network, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (D.D.).
⁵ Epistemonikos Foundation and UC Evidence Center, Cochrane Chile Associated Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (G.R.).
⁶ Cochrane France, Paris, France (D.T.).
⁷ Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and University of Milan, Milan, Italy (G.G.).

PMID: 32931326
PMCID: PMC7518109
DOI: 10.7326/M20-5261

Abstract

These authors propose an “evidence ecosystem” for COVID-19–related studies that minimizes multiple low-quality reviews and helps connect evidence generation, synthesis, and decision making.

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Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M20-5261.

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[1] Boutron I, Créquit P, Williams H, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:135-142. [PMID: 32145367] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.024 - PubMed

[2] Boutron I, Créquit P, Williams H, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:135-142. [PMID: 32145367] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.024 - PubMed

[3] Gurevitch J, Koricheva J, Nakagawa S, et al. Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis. Nature. 2018;555:175-182. [PMID: 29517004] doi:10.1038/nature25753 - PubMed

[4] Gurevitch J, Koricheva J, Nakagawa S, et al. Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis. Nature. 2018;555:175-182. [PMID: 29517004] doi:10.1038/nature25753 - PubMed

[5] Guan WJ, Ni ZY, Hu Y, et al; China Medical Treatment Expert Group for Covid-19. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020;382:1708-1720. [PMID: 32109013] doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2002032 - PMC - PubMed

[6] Guan WJ, Ni ZY, Hu Y, et al; China Medical Treatment Expert Group for Covid-19. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020;382:1708-1720. [PMID: 32109013] doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2002032 - PMC - PubMed

[7] Créquit P, Boutron I, Meerpohl J, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. Current opportunities and need for better tools and methods. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:143-152. [PMID: 32145369] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.023 - PubMed

[8] Créquit P, Boutron I, Meerpohl J, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. Current opportunities and need for better tools and methods. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:143-152. [PMID: 32145369] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.023 - PubMed

[9] Ravaud P, Créquit P, Williams HC, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 3. From an evidence synthesis ecosystem to an evidence ecosystem. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:153-161. [PMID: 32147384] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.027 - PubMed

[10] Ravaud P, Créquit P, Williams HC, et al. Future of evidence ecosystem series: 3. From an evidence synthesis ecosystem to an evidence ecosystem. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020;123:153-161. [PMID: 32147384] doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.027 - PubMed

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