Data Harmonization and Data Integration Inside the Disease Area Lung Cancer of the German Center for Lung Research

Introduction: The disease area Lung Cancer (LuCa) of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), aims to establish a shared case base for investigating lung cancer related cohorts. Due to the diversity of the source data elements (SDE) arising from the different clinics, a data harmonization process has to be performed to achieve common data elements (CDE) for semantic interoperability. We present necessary steps to perform data integration of a harmonized data structure for LuCa. This data structure and the underlying medical data is made available inside a research Data Warehouse (RDW) to enable joint data anal…