Issue # and location

Issue summary

There are several “end” dates in the drug_exposure table: drug_exposure_end_date, drug_exposure_end_datetime and verbatim_end_datetime. It is unclear how/when verbatim_end_date should be stored.

Convention type

Table

CDM table

DRUG_EXPOSURE

CDM field

verbatim_end_date

Provenance of data

General

The ratified convention

verbatim_end_date represents the “discontinue day” or date the physician explicitly stopped the medication. Populate the field only when it is directly defined in the source as a date. If this is not available, then leave the field blank.

Date of ratification/published

NA

Downstream implications

NA

NA

NA

Tags: dates