Research Advancement through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization
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The aim of ReACH is to provide resources in the form of a comprehensive web-based catalogue and an harmonization platform to optimize and expand the use of Canadian pregnancy and birth cohorts data and biological samples.
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General Information
- Year created
- 2016
- Types of cohorts
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- Population cohort
- Patient/disease cohort
- Clinical trial
- Countries
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- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Croatia
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Region
- Principally Canada
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- This project has received funding from the CIHR Operating Grant for the Canadian DoHaD Cohort Registry
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- (1) recruit Canadian mothers and/or children; (2) have a longitudinal design (i.e. at least one follow-up of participants after the initial collection event); (3) have collected data (baseline or follow-up) after 2000; (4) collect information on pregnancy and birth outcomes
- Socio-environmental context
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- NA
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 89,889
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 0
- Maximum age
- 45
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-post
- Data processing methods
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- Algorithmic
- Calibration
- Standardisation
- Latent variable model
- Multiple imputation
- Others
- Type of infrastructure
- Some centrally, other locally
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Software
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- OBiBa (Opal/Mica)
- R / Rmarkdown
- Other
- Supplementary information
- The harmonisation will be achieved to serve the needs of a series of case studies. The strategies of harmonization are in some cohorts prospective and another retrospective.
Number of cohorts
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Availability of individual data
- Under request