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ebmdatalab / openprescribing

A Django app providing a REST API and dashboards for the HSCIC's GP prescribing data
https://openprescribing.net
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Decide whether to include closed practices in practice-level measures/analyses #957

Open inglesp opened 6 years ago

inglesp commented 6 years ago

From #891.

Decide what to do in practice-level measures and analyses with respect to orphan dormant and closed practices. I'm not sure if we should keep the practices in our outputs or not. A dormant or closed practice can continue to dribble out prescriptions for months after they've closed, which will muck up ratios due to small numbers issues (see this comment for a historic observation on a similar point). On the other hand, these are still real data which could contribute to overall centiles and analyses of historic interest.

(The original issue talked about orphan practices, but this is an issue for all dormant and closed practices.)

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

This requires a conversation with the wider team.

In preparation, can we add some good examples with screenshots (and links)?