Closed solmazeradat closed 2 months ago
Are we sure this is the right recommendation? Usually, concept_id=0 means there was something, we just don't know. But as @solmazeradat pointed out there might have been no healthcare setting from which the patient was admitted, and we know that for a fact. Sounds to me we should go to @clairblacketer and make this field nullable.
It is a nullable field, @cgreich. However, there is CDM guidance to set to concept_id = 0 when patient was admitted from home. Will assign to @clairblacketer
Admitting_source_concept_id when admitted from home
CDM or THEMIS convention?
CDM
Table or Field level?
Field
Is this a general convention?
No
Summary of issues
visit_occurrence table
definition, the fieldadmitted_source_concept_id
is used to determine where the patient was admitted from.Summary of answer
Author 1: concept_id=0, because a visit concept by definition describes the interaction between a patient and the healthcare system. If there was no such interaction there is no visit concept.
Related links
https://forums.ohdsi.org/t/admitting-source-concept-id-when-admitted-from-home/13205
https://forums.ohdsi.org/t/discharge-to-concept-id-description-vs-accepted-concepts/13931
https://github.com/OHDSI/CommonDataModel/issues/382#issuecomment-899898266
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