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add info regarding provider_id
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alistairewj committed Feb 4, 2023
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/IV/modules/hosp/admissions.md
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`admission_type` is useful for classifying the urgency of the admission. There are 9 possibilities: 'AMBULATORY OBSERVATION', 'DIRECT EMER.', 'DIRECT OBSERVATION', 'ELECTIVE', 'EU OBSERVATION', 'EW EMER.', 'OBSERVATION ADMIT', 'SURGICAL SAME DAY ADMISSION', 'URGENT'.

### `admit_provider_id`

`admit_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who admitted the patient.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

### `admission_location`, `discharge_location`

`admission_location` provides information about the location of the patient prior to arriving at the hospital. Note that as the emergency room is technically a clinic, patients who are admitted via the emergency room usually have it as their admission location.
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/IV/modules/hosp/emar.md
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An identifier which links administrations in *emar* to pharmacy information in the *pharmacy* table.

### `enter_provider_id`

`enter_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who entered the information into the eMAR system.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

### `charttime`

The time at which the medication was administered.
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/IV/modules/hosp/labevents.md
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An identifier which uniquely denotes laboratory concepts.

### `order_provider_id`

`order_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who ordered the laboratory measurement.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

### `charttime`

The time at which the laboratory measurement was charted. This is usually the time at which the specimen was acquired, and is usually significantly **earlier** than the time at which the measurement is available.
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{{% include "/static/include/hadm_id.md" %}}


### `micro_specimen_id`

Uniquely denoted the specimen from which the microbiology measurement was made. Most microbiology measurements are made on patient derived samples (specimens) such as blood, urine, and so on.
Often multiple measurements are made on the same sample. The `micro_specimen_id` will group measurements made on the same sample, e.g. organisms which grew from the same blood sample.

### `order_provider_id`

`order_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who ordered the microbiology test.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

## `chartdate`, `charttime`

`charttime` records the time at which an observation was charted, and is usually the closest proxy to the time the data was actually measured.
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/IV/modules/hosp/poe.md
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If this order discontinues a previous order, then `discontinue_of_poe_id` will link to the previous order which was discontinued.
Conversely, if this order was later discontinued by a distinct order, then `discontinued_by_poe_id` will link to that future order.

### `order_provider_id`

`order_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who made the order.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

### `order_status`

Whether the order is still active ('Active') or whether it has been inactivated ('Inactive').
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These columns allow linking prescriptions to associated orders in the *poe* table.

### `order_provider_id`

`order_provider_id` provides an anonymous identifier for the provider who initiated the order.
{{% include "/static/include/provider_id.md" %}}

### `starttime`, `stoptime`

The prescribed start and stop time for the medication.
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Provider identifiers follow a consistent pattern: the letter "P", followed by either three numbers, followed by two letters or two numbers.
For example, "P003AB", "P00102", "P1248B", etc. Provider identifiers are randomly generated and do not have any inherent meaning aside from uniquely identifying the same provider across the database.

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