Mapping Transfusions and Donations to OMOP

CDM Builders
2

Hi @anabarbararc:

  1. Yes, the donation is not a healthcare intervention. Well, it is, of course, but not an intervention to the patient. It’s like production of a medicinal product. We don’t consider that a healthcare event, and usually it is not recorded in any EHR or insurance claim database anyway. Are you interested in researching outcomes for the donors?

  2. The transfusion is a device exposure, because OMOP considers transfusions devices, rather than drugs. However, there has been debate about this in the past: Mapping Transfusion Data. But not matter where it goes, the person_id foreign key field should like any exposure (drug or device) to a unique patient identifier, so you can find out what else happened to the patient. Is that what you are trying to achieve?