Reproducibility Rounds: How Reproducible is Health Science Research?

We will discuss the methods, results, and implications of a series of scoping and systematic reviews that synthesized evidence on the reproducibility of health science research. Specific aims of the projects included describing and categorizing methods and metrics used to quantify reproducibility, synthesizing estimates of the prevalence of reproducible research, and characterizing factors associated with reproducibility. We will describe our dataset of 1,340 articles with a focus on the sub-set with empirical data. We will report on the seven methods used for conducting reproducibility research, 38 metrics to quantify reproducibility, 180 estimates of the prevalence of reproducibility, and 234 factors associated with reproducibility which we grouped into modifiable and non-modifiable categories. Finally, we will discuss the significant heterogeneity in the evidence and challenges in synthesizing this data.

Speakers:
Niklas Bobrovitz, MD, MSc, DPhil
third-year emergency medicine resident
Centre for Health Informatics
University of Calgary

Stephana Moss, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Dalhousie University

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There and Back Again: A Geospatial SHIRE Journey

This seminar will discuss geospatial analysis within the Secure Health Informatics Research Environment (SHIRE). Attendees will learn how to bring geospatial data there, analyze and manipulate it within the SHIRE, and bring one's precious geospatial research results back again. No trolls were turned to stone in the making of this presentation.

Speaker:
Tomas J. McIntee, PhD
Research Data Scientist
TraCS Data Science Lab

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Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series cover a range of topics related to health care data science, clinical data, data engineering, and working in these areas at UNC-Chapel Hill. These hybrid seminars are usually held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the NC TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of Brinkhous-Bullitt or via Zoom.