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documentation:next_cdm:days_supply [2016/02/25 12:10]
cgreich
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clairblacketer
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-===== Remove days_supply field =====+===== End of a drug exposure ​===== 
 +=== Proposals are now tracked as github issues === 
 +[[https://​github.com/​OHDSI/​CommonDataModel/​issues/​71|link to issue in github]]
  
   * Requester: Klaus Bonadt, Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan   * Requester: Klaus Bonadt, Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan
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 ==== Proposal ==== ==== Proposal ====
-If the days_supply and the drug_exposure_end_date fields essentially designate the same thing they are therefore duplicates of the same information and create the danger of of inconsistencyOne of them could be dropped +Relevant table: http://www.ohdsi.org/​web/​wiki/​doku.php?​id=documentation:​cdm:drug_exposure
- +
-Alternatively,​ we could split them into two different meanings:+
  
 ^Field^Required^Type^Description^ ^Field^Required^Type^Description^
-|drug_exposure_end_date|**Yes**|date|**The end date for the current instance of Drug utilization. Depending on different sources, ​but it denotes the date at which the patient ​no longer ​was exposed to drug.**+|drug_exposure_end_date|Yes|date|The end date for the current instance of Drug utilization. Depending on different sources, it could be a known or an inferred date and denotes the last day at which the patient was still exposed to drug.| 
-|days_supply|No|integer|**The number of days of supply of the medication as prescribed. This reflects the intention of the provider for the length of exposure.**|+|days_supply|No|integer|The number of days of supply of the medication as prescribed. This reflects the intention of the provider for the length of exposure.| 
 +|verbatim_end_date|No|date|The known end date of a drug exposure as provided by the source.| 
 + 
 +The verbatim_end_dat field is only necessary as the drug_exposure_end_date becomes mandatory, and might be (wrongly) inferred. In cases where no good data are available to fill that end_date, the ETL will have to take a guess, and that may not satisfy some algorithms for dose calculation. ​
  
 == Conventions == == Conventions ==
  
-  * The drug_exposure_end_date denotes the day the drug exposure ended for the patient. This could be that the duration of drug_supply was reached (in which case drug_exposure_end_date = drug_exposure_start_date + days_supply),​ or because the exposure was stopped (medication changed, medication discontinued,​ etc.)+  * The drug_exposure_end_date denotes the day the drug exposure ended for the patient. This could be that the duration of drug_supply was reached (in which case drug_exposure_end_date = drug_exposure_start_date + days_supply ​-1), or because the exposure was stopped (medication changed, medication discontinued,​ etc.)
  
  
documentation/next_cdm/days_supply.txt · Last modified: 2017/07/06 19:18 by clairblacketer