expanding templates

[aspina7]

@nsbatra - if we were going to look at expanding to offer other templates, this would probably be where to start

https://www.who.int/emergencies/outbreak-toolkit/standardized-data-collection-tools/t0-initial-case-investigation-form

[aspina7]

oh so this is definitely worth going in to.
There is a whole set of stuff here @nsbatra and @jarvisc1
https://www.who.int/emergencies/outbreak-toolkit/standardized-data-collection-tools

They have epi core variables defined already (between who and msf and others).
They also have case investigation forms for various diseases.

There is also verbal autopsy standars - these are similar to a mortality survey, though less concise .

So we should:

• discuss with marie-amelie if there is potentially money for developing r templates for these
• see if we could chuck some of this in an r-consortium application
• discuss with pat if they have reached final agreements intersectionally at msf
• discuss with chrissy roberts about standardising odk froms / data dictionaries (im sure he has already been in discussions about this)
• as an example - add an r {sitrep} template for the the WHO initial case investigation form (as already in ODK)
• cross-check between the minimum epi vars and the existing msf dicts - to get a list of which vars in common
• create proposal of #hxl tags for that list of variables
• update templates so that the beginning just pulls appropriate hxl tags (and the rest becomes standardised)
  • consider using the epiverse packages (personally think that would be overengineered but lets see)
• translate to other languages (human, ?machine)
• create code chunks based on standardised var names
• add a page to the handbook
• create a shinyapp so ppl can interactively drag and drop code chunks to create a sitrep (e.g. table of cases by demographics, epicurve, pyramid etc etc)
• realise that we have automated ourselves out of a job