Dear Community, I want to share with you our updates that were done 16 January and tell you about our future plans.
We introduced a set of tobacco or its derivatives-related concepts to accompany these ETL Smoking conventions in a few axes in OMOP Extension vocabulary. The top concept of hierarchy is Findings of tobacco or its derivatives use or exposure. Tobacco users are now defined according to the type of the product they use (Smokeless, Electronic, Cigarettes, Cigars, etc.), while cigarette smokers are also classified according to the severity of smoking (Trivial, Light, Moderate, Heavy, Very heavy). Cigarettes pack-years smoked during life is intended to capture the cumulative consumption of cigarettes.
Newly created concepts are Standard and should be used during ETL processes and mapping. We are going to destandardize concepts from other vocabularies during further releases. For now, our priority is SNOMED Standard concepts as many Non-Standard concepts from other vocabularies have “Maps to” link to them.