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documentation:next_cdm:days_supply [2016/03/02 16:14]
cgreich
documentation:next_cdm:days_supply [2016/11/01 17:40]
vojtechhuser
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-===== Remove days_supply field =====+===== End of a drug exposure ​=====
  
   * Requester: Klaus Bonadt, Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan   * Requester: Klaus Bonadt, Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan
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 ==== Proposal ==== ==== Proposal ====
 +Relevant table: http://​www.ohdsi.org/​web/​wiki/​doku.php?​id=documentation:​cdm:​drug_exposure
 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 inconsistency. One of them could be dropped. ​ 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 inconsistency. One of them could be dropped. ​
  
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 |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.| |verbatim_end_date|No|date|The known end date of a drug exposure.|
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 +The verbatim_end_dat field is only necessary if we decide to make the drug_exposure_end_date mandatory. In cases where no good data are available to fill that end_date, teh ETL will have to take a guess, and that may not satisfy some algorithms for dose calculation. ​
  
 == Conventions == == Conventions ==
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