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ETL UK-Biobank
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Placeholder dates for date of birth in GP data #290

Closed spiros closed 3 years ago

spiros commented 3 years ago

UK Biobank uses placeholder dates for GP events where the date matches the participants date of birth. Specifically,

We can overwrite these dates in the data during ETL and set them to 01/07/YOB where YOB is taken from the baseline assessment data (recorded as data field 34.

MaximMoinat commented 3 years ago

Note: in the latest run (June 9th), there are no 1902/1903 dates. This run, only the covid19 gp data was taken as source for GP, so it seems like these placeholder dates only occur in the regular GP files.