** Group Leaders:** Kristin Feeney, Mui van Zandt

**[[projects:workgroups:themis:focusgroup4members|Members]]**

**Meetings:**   

**THEMIS Bi-weekly Meeting (Skype Meeting)**
Occurs every other Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
 
**[[https://meet.lync.com/quintiles-quintilesims/mui.vanzandt/7Z24VJ8Z|Join Skype Meeting]]** 
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Join by phone
Toll number:        +1 (646) 838-2458,,88328055# (Dial-in Number) English (United States)  
Conference ID: 88328055


**Meeting Minutes:** 

**[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lMNi6dVWiKYLpvpktBGfFEKkgN_47YD07RITmUVcJU/edit?usp=sharing]|2/1/2018]]**

**[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lMNi6dVWiKYLpvpktBGfFEKkgN_47YD07RITmUVcJU/edit?usp=sharing]|1/18/2018]]**

**[[projects:workgroups:themis:themis_-_person_provider_etc_subgroup_notes_120617.docx|12/06/2017]]**


**[[projects:workgroups:themis:themis_-_person_provider_etc_subgroup_notes_112117.docx|11/21/2017]]**




^Issue^Options^
|**CARE_SITE**||
|Split up living Provider/Organization|Pick based on transaction, develop conventions/Leave all in one|
|Place of Service|Clean up, make international|
|Place of Service when different in facility and professional claims| |
|**DEATH**||
|Indirect, direct (immediate cause), and origin|Death Type Concept|
|Multiple records - same day|allow|
|Multiple records - different day|don't allow|
|Events after death|Grace period/event count with threshold/Move death date/Move event dates/remove/relegate to History of|
|Privacy rules for suppression|Data provider's problem|
|**PERSON**||
|Birth year after the database ends|Define quality conventions|
|Glean month if birth absent e.g. from Observation Period starting same year|ETLer's problem, not recommended|
|HIPAA Rule says no <2 and >85|Develop guidelines|
|Gender vs Sex|Submit to WG|
|Multiple genders|Pick latest/Pick earliest|
|Multiple ethnicities|Pick latest/Pick earliest|
|Multiple races|Pick latest/Pick earliest|
|No year of birth or 0|Drop patient|
|Keep if no other record in other data|Keep|
|Primary provider unknown|Leave blank|
|**PROVIDER**||
|Split up living Provider/Organization|See Care Site|
|More than on provider of hospitalization, in charge, general, specialist, prescription|Pick by transaction type|
|Multiple Care Sites|Through Visit|
|No Care Sites|Leave blank|
|NPI with multiple names|Ignore|
|Multiple specialties|Create multiple entries with flag/pick|
|Specialty|Clean up|
|**LOCATION**||
|Time-changing|WG Group|
|Representation of region|Develop guideline|
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