Practical Exercises

Basic options for adding metadata to research studies

Here are some hints how to add metadata as FHIR elements to your research study.

Starting from Scatch

For those who have not yet worked with FSH, there is a comprehensive example.

Starting from examples

If you do not want to start with an empty study, you can copy the JSON code from one of the following examples.

• NFDI4Health Example Study
• MII Beispielstudie
• List of examples for instances of FHIR R4 ResearchStudy on Simplifier - examples of varying quality
• ClinicalTrials.gov-to-FEvIR Converter by Computable Publishing® - creates an FHIR R6-alpha ResearchStudy from a given NCT ID. This means cheating and your conference ticket will be void!

Reference Example L2H

As a reference example and to show the expressiveness of different Implmentation Guides, we developed serializations in different formats for an overarching clinical trial: LIVERT(W)OHEAL (L2H).

Normative references

• LIVERT(W)OHEAL in clinicaltrials.gov

FHIR conforming to R4

• L2H in R4
  • plus conforming to NFDI4Health MDS profiles
  • plus conforming to MII Module Research Studies profiles

FHIR conforming to R4B

• L2H in R4b, conforming to FHIR4FAIR profiles

FHIR conforming to R5

• L2H in R5