Vocab table descriptions

inst/csv/OMOP_CDMv5.3_Table_Level.csv

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 cdmTableName,schema,isRequired,conceptPrefix,measurePersonCompleteness,measurePersonCompletenessThreshold,validation,tableDescription,userGuidance,etlConventions
 person,CDM,Yes,NA,No,NA,NA,"This table serves as the central identity management for all Persons in the database. It contains records that uniquely identify each person or patient, and some demographic information.",All records in this table are independent Persons.,"All Persons in a database needs one record in this table, unless they fail data quality requirements specified in the ETL. Persons with no Events should have a record nonetheless. If more than one data source contributes Events to the database, Persons must be reconciled, if possible, across the sources to create one single record per Person. The content of the BIRTH_DATETIME must be equivalent to the content of BIRTH_DAY, BIRTH_MONTH and BIRTH_YEAR.<br><br>For detailed conventions for how to populate this table, please refer to the [THEMIS repository](https://ohdsi.github.io/Themis/person.html)."
 observation_period,CDM,Yes,NA,Yes,0,NA,"This table contains records which define spans of time during which two conditions are expected to hold: (i) Clinical Events that happened to the Person are recorded in the Event tables, and (ii) absence of records indicate such Events did not occur during this span of time.","For each Person, one or more OBSERVATION_PERIOD records may be present, but they will not overlap or be back to back to each other. Events may exist outside all of the time spans of the OBSERVATION_PERIOD records for a patient, however, absence of an Event outside these time spans cannot be construed as evidence of absence of an Event. Incidence or prevalence rates should only be calculated for the time of active OBSERVATION_PERIOD records. When constructing cohorts, outside Events can be used for inclusion criteria definition, but without any guarantee for the performance of these criteria. Also, OBSERVATION_PERIOD records can be as short as a single day, greatly disturbing the denominator of any rate calculation as part of cohort characterizations. To avoid that, apply minimal observation time as a requirement for any cohort definition.","Each Person needs to have at least one OBSERVATION_PERIOD record, which should represent time intervals with a high capture rate of Clinical Events. Some source data have very similar concepts, such as enrollment periods in insurance claims data. In other source data such as most EHR systems these time spans need to be inferred under a set of assumptions. It is the discretion of the ETL developer to define these assumptions. In many ETL solutions the start date of the first occurrence or the first high quality occurrence of a Clinical Event (Condition, Drug, Procedure, Device, Measurement, Visit) is defined as the start of the OBSERVATION_PERIOD record, and the end date of the last occurrence of last high quality occurrence of a Clinical Event, or the end of the database period becomes the end of the OBSERVATOIN_PERIOD for each Person. If a Person only has a single Clinical Event the OBSERVATION_PERIOD record can be as short as one day. Depending on these definitions it is possible that Clinical Events fall outside the time spans defined by OBSERVATION_PERIOD records. Family history or history of Clinical Events generally are not used to generate OBSERVATION_PERIOD records around the time they are referring to. Any two overlapping or adjacent OBSERVATION_PERIOD records have to be merged into one."
 visit_occurrence,CDM,No,VISIT_,Yes,0,NA,"This table contains Events where Persons engage with the healthcare system for a duration of time. They are often also called ""Encounters"". Visits are defined by a configuration of circumstances under which they occur, such as (i) whether the patient comes to a healthcare institution, the other way around, or the interaction is remote, (ii) whether and what kind of trained medical staff is delivering the service during the Visit, and (iii) whether the Visit is transient or for a longer period involving a stay in bed.","The configuration defining the Visit are described by Concepts in the Visit Domain, which form a hierarchical structure, but rolling up to generally familiar Visits adopted in most healthcare systems worldwide:
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 The Condition Era End Date is the end date of the last Condition Occurrence. Condition Eras are built with a Persistence Window of 30 days, meaning, if no occurrence of the same condition_concept_id happens within 30 days of any one occurrence, it will be considered the condition_era_end_date."
 metadata,CDM,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The METADATA table contains metadata information about a dataset that has been transformed to the OMOP Common Data Model.,NA,NA
 cdm_source,CDM,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CDM_SOURCE table contains detail about the source database and the process used to transform the data into the OMOP Common Data Model.,NA,NA
-concept,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The Standardized Vocabularies contains records, or Concepts, that uniquely identify each fundamental unit of meaning used to express clinical information in all domain tables of the CDM. Concepts are derived from vocabularies, which represent clinical information across a domain (e.g. conditions, drugs, procedures) through the use of codes and associated descriptions. Some Concepts are designated Standard Concepts, meaning these Concepts can be used as normative expressions of a clinical entity within the OMOP Common Data Model and within standardized analytics. Each Standard Concept belongs to one domain, which defines the location where the Concept would be expected to occur within data tables of the CDM.
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-Concepts can represent broad categories (like 'Cardiovascular disease'), detailed clinical elements ('Myocardial infarction of the anterolateral wall') or modifying characteristics and attributes that define Concepts at various levels of detail (severity of a disease, associated morphology, etc.).
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-Records in the Standardized Vocabularies tables are derived from national or international vocabularies such as SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, and LOINC, or custom Concepts defined to cover various aspects of observational data analysis.",NA,NA
-vocabulary,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The VOCABULARY table includes a list of the Vocabularies collected from various sources or created de novo by the OMOP community. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Vocabulary source and includes a descriptive name and other associated attributes for the Vocabulary.,NA,NA
-domain,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The DOMAIN table includes a list of OMOP-defined Domains the Concepts of the Standardized Vocabularies can belong to. A Domain defines the set of allowable Concepts for the standardized fields in the CDM tables. For example, the ""Condition"" Domain contains Concepts that describe a condition of a patient, and these Concepts can only be stored in the condition_concept_id field of the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE and CONDITION_ERA tables. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Domain and includes a descriptive name for the Domain.",NA,NA
-concept_class,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_CLASS table is a reference table, which includes a list of the classifications used to differentiate Concepts within a given Vocabulary. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Concept Class.",NA,NA
-concept_relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table contains records that define direct relationships between any two Concepts and the nature or type of the relationship. Each type of a relationship is defined in the RELATIONSHIP table.,NA,NA
+concept,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The Standardized Vocabularies contains records, or Concepts, that uniquely identify each fundamental unit of meaning used to express clinical information in all domain tables of the CDM. Concepts are derived from vocabularies, which represent clinical information across a domain (e.g. conditions, drugs, procedures) through the use of codes and associated descriptions. Some Concepts are designated Standard Concepts, meaning these Concepts can be used as normative expressions of a clinical entity within the OMOP Common Data Model and standardized analytics. Each Standard Concept belongs to one Domain, which defines the location where the Concept would be expected to occur within the data tables of the CDM. Concepts can represent broad categories (like ÔCardiovascular diseaseÕ), detailed clinical elements (ÔMyocardial infarction of the anterolateral wallÕ), or modifying characteristics and attributes that define Concepts at various levels of detail (severity of a disease, associated morphology, etc.). Records in the Standardized Vocabularies tables are derived from national or international vocabularies such as SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, and LOINC, or custom OMOP Concepts defined to cover various aspects of observational data analysis.
+","The primary purpose of the CONCEPT table is to provide a standardized representation of medical Concepts, allowing for consistent querying and analysis across the healthcare databases.
+Users can join the CONCEPT table with other tables in the CDM to enrich clinical data with standardized Concept information or use the CONCEPT table as a reference for mapping clinical data from source terminologies to Standard Concepts.",NA
+vocabulary,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The VOCABULARY table includes a list of the Vocabularies integrated from various sources or created de novo in OMOP CDM. This reference table contains a single record for each Vocabulary and includes a descriptive name and other associated attributes for the Vocabulary.,"The primary purpose of the VOCABULARY table is to provide explicit information about specific vocabulary versions and the references to the sources from which they are asserted. Users can identify the version of a particular vocabulary used in the database, enabling consistency and reproducibility in data analysis. Besides, users can check the vocabulary release version in their CDM which refers to the vocabulary_id = ÔNoneÕ.",NA
+domain,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The DOMAIN table includes a list of OMOP-defined Domains to which the Concepts of the Standardized Vocabularies can belong. A Domain represents a clinical definition whereby we assign matching Concepts for the standardized fields in the CDM tables. For example, the ÒConditionÓ Domain contains Concepts that describe a patient condition, and these Concepts can only be used in the condition_concept_id field of the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE and CONDITION_ERA tables. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Domain, including a Domain ID and a descriptive name for every Domain.","Users can leverage the DOMAIN table to explore the full spectrum of health-related data Domains available in the Standardized Vocabularies. Also, the information in the DOMAIN table may be used as a reference for mapping source data to OMOP domains, facilitating data harmonization and interoperability.",NA
+concept_class,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_CLASS table includes semantic categories that reference the source structure of each Vocabulary. Concept Classes represent so-called horizontal (e.g. MedDRA, RxNorm) or vertical levels (e.g. SNOMED) of the vocabulary structure. Vocabularies without any Concept Classes, such as HCPCS, use the vocabulary_id as the Concept Class. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Concept Class, which includes a Concept Class ID and a fully specified Concept Class name.
+",Users can utilize the CONCEPT_CLASS table to explore the different classes or categories of concepts within the OHDSI vocabularies.,NA
+concept_relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table contains records that define relationships between any two Concepts and the nature or type of the relationship. This table captures various types of relationships, including hierarchical, associative, and other semantic connections, enabling comprehensive analysis and interpretation of clinical concepts. Every kind of relationship is defined in the RELATIONSHIP table.","The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table can be used to explore hierarchical or attribute relationships between concepts to understand the hierarchical structure of clinical concepts and uncover implicit connections and associations within healthcare data. For example, users can utilize mapping relationships ('Maps to') to harmonize data from different sources and terminologies, enabling interoperability and data integration across disparate datasets.",NA
 relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The RELATIONSHIP table provides a reference list of all types of relationships that can be used to associate any two concepts in the CONCEPT_RELATIONSHP table.,NA,NA
 concept_synonym,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CONCEPT_SYNONYM table is used to store alternate names and descriptions for Concepts.,NA,NA
 concept_ancestor,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table is designed to simplify observational analysis by providing the complete hierarchical relationships between Concepts. Only direct parent-child relationships between Concepts are stored in the CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table. To determine higher level ancestry connections, all individual direct relationships would have to be navigated at analysis time. The CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table includes records for all parent-child relationships, as well as grandparent-grandchild relationships and those of any other level of lineage. Using the CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table allows for querying for all descendants of a hierarchical concept. For example, drug ingredients and drug products are all descendants of a drug class ancestor.

inst/csv/OMOP_CDMv5.4_Table_Level.csv

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 cdmTableName,schema,isRequired,conceptPrefix,measurePersonCompleteness,measurePersonCompletenessThreshold,validation,tableDescription,userGuidance,etlConventions
 person,CDM,Yes,NA,No,NA,NA,"This table serves as the central identity management for all Persons in the database. It contains records that uniquely identify each person or patient, and some demographic information.",All records in this table are independent Persons.,"All Persons in a database needs one record in this table, unless they fail data quality requirements specified in the ETL. Persons with no Events should have a record nonetheless. If more than one data source contributes Events to the database, Persons must be reconciled, if possible, across the sources to create one single record per Person. The content of the BIRTH_DATETIME must be equivalent to the content of BIRTH_DAY, BIRTH_MONTH and BIRTH_YEAR.<br><br>For detailed conventions for how to populate this table, please refer to the [THEMIS repository](https://ohdsi.github.io/Themis/person.html)."
 observation_period,CDM,Yes,NA,Yes,0,NA,"This table contains records which define spans of time during which two conditions are expected to hold: (i) Clinical Events that happened to the Person are recorded in the Event tables, and (ii) absence of records indicate such Events did not occur during this span of time.","For each Person, one or more OBSERVATION_PERIOD records may be present, but they will not overlap or be back to back to each other. Events may exist outside all of the time spans of the OBSERVATION_PERIOD records for a patient, however, absence of an Event outside these time spans cannot be construed as evidence of absence of an Event. Incidence or prevalence rates should only be calculated for the time of active OBSERVATION_PERIOD records. When constructing cohorts, outside Events can be used for inclusion criteria definition, but without any guarantee for the performance of these criteria. Also, OBSERVATION_PERIOD records can be as short as a single day, greatly disturbing the denominator of any rate calculation as part of cohort characterizations. To avoid that, apply minimal observation time as a requirement for any cohort definition.","Each Person needs to have at least one OBSERVATION_PERIOD record, which should represent time intervals with a high capture rate of Clinical Events. Some source data have very similar concepts, such as enrollment periods in insurance claims data. In other source data such as most EHR systems these time spans need to be inferred under a set of assumptions. It is the discretion of the ETL developer to define these assumptions. In many ETL solutions the start date of the first occurrence or the first high quality occurrence of a Clinical Event (Condition, Drug, Procedure, Device, Measurement, Visit) is defined as the start of the OBSERVATION_PERIOD record, and the end date of the last occurrence of last high quality occurrence of a Clinical Event, or the end of the database period becomes the end of the OBSERVATOIN_PERIOD for each Person. If a Person only has a single Clinical Event the OBSERVATION_PERIOD record can be as short as one day. Depending on these definitions it is possible that Clinical Events fall outside the time spans defined by OBSERVATION_PERIOD records. Family history or history of Clinical Events generally are not used to generate OBSERVATION_PERIOD records around the time they are referring to. Any two overlapping or adjacent OBSERVATION_PERIOD records have to be merged into one."
 visit_occurrence,CDM,No,VISIT_,Yes,0,NA,"This table contains Events where Persons engage with the healthcare system for a duration of time. They are often also called ""Encounters"". Visits are defined by a configuration of circumstances under which they occur, such as (i) whether the patient comes to a healthcare institution, the other way around, or the interaction is remote, (ii) whether and what kind of trained medical staff is delivering the service during the Visit, and (iii) whether the Visit is transient or for a longer period involving a stay in bed.","The configuration defining the Visit are described by Concepts in the Visit Domain, which form a hierarchical structure, but rolling up to generally familiar Visits adopted in most healthcare systems worldwide:
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 episode_event,CDM,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The EPISODE_EVENT table connects qualifying clinical events (such as CONDITION_OCCURRENCE, DRUG_EXPOSURE, PROCEDURE_OCCURRENCE, MEASUREMENT) to the appropriate EPISODE entry. For example, linking the precise location of the metastasis (cancer modifier in MEASUREMENT) to the disease episode.",This connecting table is used instead of the FACT_RELATIONSHIP table for linking low-level events to abstracted Episodes.,"Some episodes may not have links to any underlying clinical events. For such episodes, the EPISODE_EVENT table is not populated."
 metadata,CDM,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The METADATA table contains metadata information about a dataset that has been transformed to the OMOP Common Data Model.,NA,NA
 cdm_source,CDM,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CDM_SOURCE table contains detail about the source database and the process used to transform the data into the OMOP Common Data Model.,NA,NA
-concept,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The Standardized Vocabularies contains records, or Concepts, that uniquely identify each fundamental unit of meaning used to express clinical information in all domain tables of the CDM. Concepts are derived from vocabularies, which represent clinical information across a domain (e.g. conditions, drugs, procedures) through the use of codes and associated descriptions. Some Concepts are designated Standard Concepts, meaning these Concepts can be used as normative expressions of a clinical entity within the OMOP Common Data Model and within standardized analytics. Each Standard Concept belongs to one domain, which defines the location where the Concept would be expected to occur within data tables of the CDM.
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-Concepts can represent broad categories (like 'Cardiovascular disease'), detailed clinical elements ('Myocardial infarction of the anterolateral wall') or modifying characteristics and attributes that define Concepts at various levels of detail (severity of a disease, associated morphology, etc.).
-
-Records in the Standardized Vocabularies tables are derived from national or international vocabularies such as SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, and LOINC, or custom Concepts defined to cover various aspects of observational data analysis.",NA,NA
-vocabulary,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The VOCABULARY table includes a list of the Vocabularies collected from various sources or created de novo by the OMOP community. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Vocabulary source and includes a descriptive name and other associated attributes for the Vocabulary.,NA,NA
-domain,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The DOMAIN table includes a list of OMOP-defined Domains the Concepts of the Standardized Vocabularies can belong to. A Domain defines the set of allowable Concepts for the standardized fields in the CDM tables. For example, the ""Condition"" Domain contains Concepts that describe a condition of a patient, and these Concepts can only be stored in the condition_concept_id field of the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE and CONDITION_ERA tables. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Domain and includes a descriptive name for the Domain.",NA,NA
-concept_class,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_CLASS table is a reference table, which includes a list of the classifications used to differentiate Concepts within a given Vocabulary. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Concept Class.",NA,NA
-concept_relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table contains records that define direct relationships between any two Concepts and the nature or type of the relationship. Each type of a relationship is defined in the RELATIONSHIP table.,NA,NA
+concept,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The Standardized Vocabularies contains records, or Concepts, that uniquely identify each fundamental unit of meaning used to express clinical information in all domain tables of the CDM. Concepts are derived from vocabularies, which represent clinical information across a domain (e.g. conditions, drugs, procedures) through the use of codes and associated descriptions. Some Concepts are designated Standard Concepts, meaning these Concepts can be used as normative expressions of a clinical entity within the OMOP Common Data Model and standardized analytics. Each Standard Concept belongs to one Domain, which defines the location where the Concept would be expected to occur within the data tables of the CDM. Concepts can represent broad categories (like ÔCardiovascular diseaseÕ), detailed clinical elements (ÔMyocardial infarction of the anterolateral wallÕ), or modifying characteristics and attributes that define Concepts at various levels of detail (severity of a disease, associated morphology, etc.). Records in the Standardized Vocabularies tables are derived from national or international vocabularies such as SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, and LOINC, or custom OMOP Concepts defined to cover various aspects of observational data analysis.
+","The primary purpose of the CONCEPT table is to provide a standardized representation of medical Concepts, allowing for consistent querying and analysis across the healthcare databases.
+Users can join the CONCEPT table with other tables in the CDM to enrich clinical data with standardized Concept information or use the CONCEPT table as a reference for mapping clinical data from source terminologies to Standard Concepts.",NA
+vocabulary,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The VOCABULARY table includes a list of the Vocabularies integrated from various sources or created de novo in OMOP CDM. This reference table contains a single record for each Vocabulary and includes a descriptive name and other associated attributes for the Vocabulary.,"The primary purpose of the VOCABULARY table is to provide explicit information about specific vocabulary versions and the references to the sources from which they are asserted. Users can identify the version of a particular vocabulary used in the database, enabling consistency and reproducibility in data analysis. Besides, users can check the vocabulary release version in their CDM which refers to the vocabulary_id = ÔNoneÕ.",NA
+domain,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The DOMAIN table includes a list of OMOP-defined Domains to which the Concepts of the Standardized Vocabularies can belong. A Domain represents a clinical definition whereby we assign matching Concepts for the standardized fields in the CDM tables. For example, the ÒConditionÓ Domain contains Concepts that describe a patient condition, and these Concepts can only be used in the condition_concept_id field of the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE and CONDITION_ERA tables. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Domain, including a Domain ID and a descriptive name for every Domain.","Users can leverage the DOMAIN table to explore the full spectrum of health-related data Domains available in the Standardized Vocabularies. Also, the information in the DOMAIN table may be used as a reference for mapping source data to OMOP domains, facilitating data harmonization and interoperability.",NA
+concept_class,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_CLASS table includes semantic categories that reference the source structure of each Vocabulary. Concept Classes represent so-called horizontal (e.g. MedDRA, RxNorm) or vertical levels (e.g. SNOMED) of the vocabulary structure. Vocabularies without any Concept Classes, such as HCPCS, use the vocabulary_id as the Concept Class. This reference table is populated with a single record for each Concept Class, which includes a Concept Class ID and a fully specified Concept Class name.
+",Users can utilize the CONCEPT_CLASS table to explore the different classes or categories of concepts within the OHDSI vocabularies.,NA
+concept_relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table contains records that define relationships between any two Concepts and the nature or type of the relationship. This table captures various types of relationships, including hierarchical, associative, and other semantic connections, enabling comprehensive analysis and interpretation of clinical concepts. Every kind of relationship is defined in the RELATIONSHIP table.","The CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table can be used to explore hierarchical or attribute relationships between concepts to understand the hierarchical structure of clinical concepts and uncover implicit connections and associations within healthcare data. For example, users can utilize mapping relationships ('Maps to') to harmonize data from different sources and terminologies, enabling interoperability and data integration across disparate datasets.",NA
 relationship,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The RELATIONSHIP table provides a reference list of all types of relationships that can be used to associate any two concepts in the CONCEPT_RELATIONSHP table.,NA,NA
 concept_synonym,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,The CONCEPT_SYNONYM table is used to store alternate names and descriptions for Concepts.,NA,NA
 concept_ancestor,VOCAB,No,NA,No,NA,NA,"The CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table is designed to simplify observational analysis by providing the complete hierarchical relationships between Concepts. Only direct parent-child relationships between Concepts are stored in the CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table. To determine higher level ancestry connections, all individual direct relationships would have to be navigated at analysis time. The CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table includes records for all parent-child relationships, as well as grandparent-grandchild relationships and those of any other level of lineage. Using the CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table allows for querying for all descendants of a hierarchical concept. For example, drug ingredients and drug products are all descendants of a drug class ancestor.