Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics

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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