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Best practices for type_concept_id constructing cohorts

Can somebody please explain what concepts should be used for type_concept_id ?
Particularly I’m wondering in type_concept_id for cohort_definition and attribute_definition. I was looking through OMOP CDM specification and didn’t find detailed explanation for these fields.

@Eldar:

We don’t have any right now.

Is the type_concept_id supposed to indicate what the cohort is? Cohort of persons, cohort of providers, cohort of care-site-id?

@frank is this for the cohort table in the cdm schema or results schema?

@Gowtham_Rao:

Sounds right. Nobody has ever done cohorts that are not patients, as far as I know.

I’ve found interesting and useful vignete for Creating covariates using cohort attributes
where Martijn Schuemie explained actual goal of those tables with excellent example. (Thank you, @schuemie :grinning: )

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