Learn more about the COVID Critical Dashboard
Working in collaboration with Aridhia Informatics, CCRG has launched the COVID Critical Dashboard.
A legacy piece from CCRG’s COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, the Dashboard allows researchers and clinicians access to the world’s largest COVID-19 ICU patient database. Aridhia and CCRG continue to work together to develop tools and systems to better understand clinicians’ needs and access to data during health crises like the COIVD-19 pandemic.
COVID Critical
Early in 2020, CCRG established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium (COVID Critical). COVID Critical is a global alliance of healthcare professionals and researchers committed to identifying the most effective treatments for COVID-19. During the height of the pandemic, COVID Critical rallied representatives from over 60 countries to collect data from more than 25,000 patients, creating the world’s largest database of COVID-19 ICU patient information. Over 400 hospitals took part in the global effort, collectively gathering over 55 million datapoints.
Aridhia has supported two main elements of the Consortium’s mission - the development of the COVID Critical Dashboard, a clinician-designed dashboard that provides insights into patient outcomes, and the provision of the Aridhia Digital Research Environment, a trusted research environment designed specifically for collaborative health data science and research.
The Dashboard
The COVID Critical Dashboard enables an audited and controlled data sharing approach to tackle COVID-19 health challenges by securely distilling and displaying data on tens of thousands of ICU patient outcomes from around the globe. It enables secure and audited access to the COVID Critical dataset to gain deeper understanding of how clinicians treated COVID-19 ICU patients.
Upon logging in, users are presented with a patient outcomes indicator. This shows the global aggregated patient data and the clinical progression of those in critical care.
A Scenario Builder tool allows Dashboard users to filter the data based on patient demographics, symptoms, comorbidities, blood values, etc. Upon filtering, the Dashboard displays the data, giving an overview of what interventions occurred and their outcomes, along with further details about the patients’ ICU stay.
The Digital Research Environment (DRE)
The Aridhia DRE allows researchers to dive deeper than is possible in the Dashboard, using a synthetic version of the COVID Critical dataset. A suite of built-in analysis tools and resources can be bolstered by other user-specific tooling, code and analysis pipelines in a space where teams can collaborate with study partners around the world while taking advantage of a comprehensive audit and assured data security and governance controls.
Looking forward
The Dashboard is now available to any researcher or clinician internationally, and CCRG and Aridhia are collaborating with a group of world leading statisticians and researchers to optimise the effectiveness of these tools, with the ultimate goal of helping clinicians be better prepared for future pandemics.
Register for access to the COVID Critical Dashboard here.
Above: Example of the COVID Critical Dashboard Scenario Builder