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OHDSI / Vocabulary-v5.0

Build process for the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies. Currently not available as independent release.
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Provider specialty needs updated mapping of non-standard to standard concepts #735

Open MelaniePhilofsky opened 1 year ago

MelaniePhilofsky commented 1 year ago

Both the SNOMED chiropractor and the Nebraska Lexicon chiropractor are non-standard concepts which do not map to a standard concept_id. I think they should map to chiropractic, a standard concept_id which is the parent of other, more granular chiropractor concepts.

cgreich commented 1 year ago

It does. The question is this: The providers are cobbled together from a bunch of vocabularies. With all their idiosyncrasies, including bad grammar (chiropractic instead of chiropractor). In the procedure world, we do the same thing with CPT4, HCPCS, ICD10PCS etc. Becomes a hodgepodge. But we don't have anything better, because unlike in Conditions there isn't a clean worldwide well maintained source we can just steal. the alternative is to create an OMOP vocabulary: A carbon copy of all those concepts, which then become de-standardized and can live their own happy life cycle.

But this is probably a debate for the Forum, or even better, some WG session.

MelaniePhilofsky commented 1 year ago

@cgreich You say there is a question "The question is this", but there isn't a question in your reply. Just a bunch of statements.

I don't think we need a complete overhaul of the Vocab. I think a link of the non-standard concepts to standard concepts would be sufficient. Or just ensure that we have one standard concept for each kind of provider.