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Duplicate Providers? #161
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@ericaVoss, I also noticed the #43 issue about “Multiple Provider Specialties”. It's important to remove duplication. I just saw one OHDSI Forum post which has Christian's reply on how to choose the appropriate specialty. If a provider has multiple specialties in different areas (pediatrics and adult), try to take out some rare outliers and find the common denominator. (for reference) (From my understanding, Christian means to find the common ancestor for these specialties in Provider domain in ATHENA hierarchy. Because sometimes, ETL developers don't have much medical background and source data may not show us which is the primary/most frequent specialty. For example, there are only 2 source records with different specialties for the same provider. It may be hard to choose which is the primary or most frequent specialty. Hope this helps! |
Thanks @ericaVoss and @jiawei-qian. Given the wording of this convention I am going to put it in the CDM documentation since it should apply to every CDM |
Duplicate Providers?
CDM or THEMIS convention?
THEMIS
Table or Field level?
TABLE
Is this a general convention?
PROVIDER table
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Summary of answer
This is the THEMIS rule:
Multiple Provider Specialities #43
In the table, each provider should appear only once; duplication is not allowed. If a provider specializes in more than one area, record their primary or most frequently practiced specialty.
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