Hi everyone!
@ericaVoss, from the medical terminology perspective, values you shared have good mappings:slight_smile.
Suspicion of COVID-19 with severe symptoms. Refer to the hospital
mapped to
37311060-Suspected disease caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2
The suspicion of an infectious disease cannot be considered as a disease proper until there is a laboratory confirmation (even though acute symptoms are present).
COVID-19 confirmed severe
OR
COVID-19 confirmed mild
mapped to
37311061-Disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
According to the clinical course of COVID-19, currently, there are no reliable clinical definitions of mild/moderate/severe/critical novel coronavirus infection. Although WHO has already provided healthcare professionals with the guidance of the patients’ categorization, this can take years to be finalized. That is the probable reason why our Gold Standard ontologies have not yet provided us with equivalent concepts. Thus, to map such source values to the generic concept seems to be technically more relevant (at least now).
No symptoms of COVID-19 at present
mapped to
0-No matching concept
The vocabulary team upholds the OMOP rule stipulating that negative information has no entry in the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE table (read more). But if you do need to store this data, I suggest you populate the OBSERVATION table with 4287774 Absence of signs and symptoms of infection as observation.concept_id and 37311061 Disease caused by 2019-nCoV as value_as_concept_id.