Harmonization of the Health and Risk Factor Questionnaire data of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: a descriptive analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project is a multistudy platform integrating the British Columbia Generations Project, Alberta's Tomorrow Project, the Ontario Health Study, CARTaGENE (Quebec) and the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health. This paper describes the process used to harmonize the Health and Risk Factor Questionnaire data and provides an overview of the key information required to properly use the core data set generated.

Methods

This is a descriptive analysis of the harmonization process that was developed on the basis of the Maelstrom Research guidelines for retrospective harmonization. Core variables (DataSchema) to be generated across cohorts were defined and the potential for cohort-specific data sets to generate the DataSchema variable

SUBMITTER: Fortier I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498449 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature