Conventions related to mapping data with dates outside of the observation period.
Issue # and location
Issue summary
In databases with defined enrollment that is used to define the observation period, it is possible for there to be events observed outside of the observation period. What should be done with these events?
Convention type
Global
CDM table
NA
CDM field
NA
Links to issue discussion
Provenance of data
General
The ratified convention
Events CAN fall out of observation period but they cannot be used to identify people in a cohort (as the index date).
Date of ratification/published
Oct 2, 2018
Downstream implications
No
Link to DQD check
Yes - plausibleTemporalAfter (page under construction)
Related conventions/further information
This is related to the convention that every person in the CDM has to have at least one observation period.