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Cochrane missing: participants age information? #13

Open roll opened 9 years ago

roll commented 9 years ago

Background Related to #21 issue.

Topic Participants age information?

Model Trial entity:

"age_from" smallint,
"age_to" smallint,
pwalsh commented 9 years ago

I'm surprised that there is no age information either directly on the trial, or, accessible via one of the tables that describe participants. But, you know this data better than anyone by now :). It is entirely possible that it is just not here, so that's ok.

roll commented 9 years ago

@danfowler, please take a look)

danfowler commented 9 years ago

age_from and age_to maps well on the trial model on the prototype, but @roll is right when he notes that the actual numbers are not directly there. Like @pwalsh said, it is in tblStudyParticipant, but then we have to map somehow between the age-like descriptions and what age ranges they represent. Also, does "Older Adult" and "Middle Aged" imply "Adult"? We need to look for a Cochrane definition of age ranges.

Child Adolescent Middle Aged Adult Older Adult