outcomesinsights / generalized_data_model

Outcomes Insights' Data Model for Clinical Research
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Drop `patient_details` Table #125

Closed aguynamedryan closed 1 year ago

aguynamedryan commented 1 year ago

GDM has two places to store observations about a patient:

patient_details seems redundant and slightly anemic when compared with clinical_codes and its related tables.

We propose to drop patient_details and store all observations about a patient in the clinical_codes table.