Low Quality Records, Start Date before Observation Period, and End Date - same day Discussion - (THEMIS - Group #3)

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Eliminating Persons [THEMIS WG3 - TOPIC 2]

I was on WG4 today and there were items there too that relate to this post. Consolidating feedback from this post and that group: It is not required that all subjects from the raw data be carried over to the CDM, in fact removing people that are not of high enough quality may help researchers using the CDM. Example scenarios to remove subjects include: a person’s year of birth or age are unreasonable (e.g. born in year 0, 1800, 2999 or just lacking a year of birth), person lacks health benefit…