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VINCI OMOP: Use and Aggregation of OMOP Standardized Vocabularies for Administrative Codes and Medications


by Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH
Seminar date: 11/9/2017

Description: In this session Dr. Matheny will present how the mappings from the CDW source vocabularies to the OMOP standard vocabularies can be used in the parallel Dimension tables populated along with OMOP, and used with both OMOP and CDW Source data. In addition, he will present how to use table functions to aggregate medications into levels of groupings, from ingredient to medication class within RxNorm in OMOP. Intended audience: Research users of the OMOP CDM, or those that are interested in using the OMOP dimension tables to map and aggregate source data.



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