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MIT-LCP / mimic-iii-paper

Repository for the paper describing MIMIC-III
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201635
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Mapping of medication concepts to RxNorm or other standard terminology #11

Closed tompollard closed 8 years ago

tompollard commented 8 years ago

The authors do not mention any mapping of medication concepts to RxNorm or other standard terminology. Similarly they do not mention the mapping of observations to LOINC codes. My supposition is that this is not mentioned because these mappings not exist within MIMIC. But the authors should be explicit if this if the case. Given that other researchers have mapped MIMIC to standard terminologies (eg., https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/project/discoveries-clinical-data), it would be valuable to incorporate directly.

tompollard commented 8 years ago

Several projects are ongoing to map concepts within the MIMIC database to standardised dictionaries. For example, researchers at the National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health have mapped laboratory tests and medications in MIMIC-II to LOINC and RxNorm, respectively [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419308/]. Efforts are also underway to transform MIMIC to common data models, such as the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model, to support the application of standardized tools and methods [http://www.ohdsi.org/data-standardization/the-common-data-model/]. These developments are progressively incorporated into the MIMIC database where possible.