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When to exclude persons from the CDM Page Considerations for excluding persons from the CDM.
How to map gender identity Page Issue # and location Themis issue #102 Issue summary The term “gender_concept_id” is outdated and really should be “sex_concept_id”. Since changing gender_concept_id is a huge lift for developers and package maintainers, this change will be implemented at the next major release. In the meantime, how...
What to do when birth day, month or time are missing from the source Page Issue # and location Themis Issue #93 Issue Summary How to populate the birth_datetime field when any or all of day/month/time of birth is not provided in the source. Convention type Table CDM table PERSON CDM field birth_datetime...
How to populate day_of_birth when it is missing from the source Page Issue # and location Themis issue #96 Issue summary Day of Birth is not required in the CDM, but it is a component of birth_datetime. The CDM conventions have guidance listed for how to infer birth_datetime field, but not for the day_of_birth field itself. Convention type...
How to populate month_of_birth when it is missing from the source Page Issue # and location Themis issue #94 Issue summary How should month_of_birth be populated when it is not provided in the source data? Month of birth is not required in the CDM, but it is a component of birth_datetime. Convention type Table CDM...
How to populate year_of_birth when it is missing from the source Page Issue # and location Themis #92 Issue summary The lack of year_of_birth creates a dilemma on how to process those records. The age of a patient is vital to observational research such that it is suggested that patients without known age should be excluded from the CDM...
PERSON Page Conventions related to mapping data into the PERSON table.