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New topic: visit to ER department #62

Closed LucieContamin closed 5 months ago

LucieContamin commented 6 months ago

I forgot to ask to add a topic for "visit to ER department, to match some RSV/FLU data we have, like for example: https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/surveillance/respiratory-illnesses/index.html.

It's currently tagged under "hospital stay dataset" but it's not matching the definition or did I misunderstood?

Also, if we add a new topic, should it be a subclass of "case count" and be on the same level of "hospital stay dataset (apollo 600)"?

hoganwr commented 6 months ago

Currently hospital stay dataset has underneath it as "narrower than" both (1) incident hospitalization count and (2) cumulative hospitalization count. Do you want the same under "ER visit dataset"?

LucieContamin commented 6 months ago

That's a very good question, I was not sure what was making more sense with the definition of both term. I was not sure we can count ER visit as a "hospital stay" dataset if that make sense?

hoganwr commented 6 months ago

Yes, the question makes sense. The answer is that as currently defined, no, hospitalization data do not cover ER visits.

LucieContamin commented 6 months ago

So I guess ER visit should not be under hospital stay (to avoid confusion)

hoganwr commented 6 months ago

I agree. My question is whether under "ER visit dataset" you would also like "incident ED visit count" and "cumulative ED visit count" analogous to the hierarchy under hospitalization dataset

LucieContamin commented 6 months ago

I apologize I misunderstood, that's a good question. It's not something we are tracking right now so I don't think that is necessary as of now, but I cannot guarantee we might not need it in the future. However I don't think that's an emergency, so "ER visit dataset" should be enough for now. Thank you very much and sorry for the confusion.

harryhoch commented 6 months ago

I think it would make sense to do the incident and cumulative...

LucieContamin commented 6 months ago

I don't feel strongly about it, if we want to have it already now, it works for me. I will have to update the entries with this information in both case.