Treatment effectiveness in multimorbidity: Combining efficacy estimates from clinical trials with the natural history obtained from large routine healthcare databases to determine net overall treatment benefits. (360G-Wellcome-201492_Z_16_A)

What the research enrichment activity will look like We have created an in- house software tool – TableTidier – that converts idiosyncratic tabular data into a a standard layout, with string terms mapped across to established ontologies. This converts the data into a more open format. The research enrichment activity is to develop the TableTidier so that unknown users (including those with diverse disabilities) can (1) modify and re-use the code in other projects and (2) use TableTidier to convert tabular data into open formats both for their own use and - in a crowdsourcing model - for the wider research community. This development work will include new coding as well as documentation and testing of TableTidier. This work will be strongly informed by a series of workshops with the target audience – researchers working across diverse academic disciplines. We will also promote the tool to users throughout the UK and internationally via letters to journals and social media engagement as well as via established networks within the evidence synthesis field. What we will have been achieved As a result of the enrichment award we will have achieved the following:- \- TableTidier will have been successfully used by researchers beyond our own university and across disciplines \- A body of converted standard “open” format versions of tabular data will have been added to a searchable database, some of which will have been accessed by distinct users \- Authors publishing findings will have created standard versions of their published tables in open formats