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-===== Gender Domain =====+===== Gender Domain ​and Vocabulary ​=====
  
 The Gender domain captures all concepts about the sex of a person, denoting the biological and physiological characteristics. In fact, the Domain (and field in the PERSON table) should probably should be called "​sex"​ rather than "​gender",​ as gender refers to behaviors, roles, expectations,​ and activities in society. ​ The Gender domain captures all concepts about the sex of a person, denoting the biological and physiological characteristics. In fact, the Domain (and field in the PERSON table) should probably should be called "​sex"​ rather than "​gender",​ as gender refers to behaviors, roles, expectations,​ and activities in society. ​
  
-The domain contains only two standard concepts: FEMALE (concept_id=8532) and MALE (concept_id=8507). Many data sources contain other codes, such as "​Unknown",​ "​Refused to tell", "​Hermaphrodite", ​ as well as transgender constellations ("male to female",​ etc.). For the current purposes of the OMOP CDM, the gender concepts are used to stratify patients by their biological make-up or to adjust analytical results for the influence of the biological sex. Therefore, all those other genders are denoted as concept_id=0 (unknown information). ​+The domain contains only two standard concepts: FEMALE (concept_id=8532) and MALE (concept_id=8507). Many data sources contain other codes, such as "​Unknown",​ "​Refused to tell", "​Hermaphrodite", ​ as well as transgender constellations ("male to female",​ etc.). For the current purposes of the OMOP CDM, the gender concepts are used to stratify patients by their biological make-up or to adjust analytical results for the influence of the biological sex. Therefore, all those other genders are denoted as concept_id=0 (unknown information)
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 +There are no relationships defined for Gender, other than mappings from source concepts. However, most ETL handle Gender Concepts directly without the help of mapping tables.
documentation/vocabulary/gender.txt · Last modified: 2016/03/12 22:27 by cgreich