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Phenotype Submission: C difficile, first episode or positive test

Cohort Definition Name(s): c difficile, first episode.

Contributor Name: Evan Minty, Surgery and Perioperative WG

Contributor OrcID : 0000-0003-4631-9992

Logic Description :

Cohort Entry Events

People may enter the cohort when observing any of the following:

condition occurrences of ‘c difficile - condition’.

measurements of ‘c difficile - measurement’, with value as concept: “positive”, “positive for”, “positive/elevated”, “positive/elevated”, “positive/elevated”, “positive for c. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase and negative for toxins a+b”, “positive for c. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase and toxins a+b” or “positive/elevated”.

Limit cohort entry events to the earliest event per person.

Inclusion Criteria

  1. No c diff (condition) in history

Entry events having no condition occurrences of ‘c difficile - condition’, starting anytime prior to cohort entry start date.

  1. No c diff (by measurement) in history

Entry events having no measurements of ‘c difficile - measurement’, starting anytime prior to cohort entry start date; with value as concept: “positive for c. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase and negative for toxins a+b”, “positive for c. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase and toxins a+b”, “positive”, “positive for”, “positive/elevated”, “positive/elevated”, “positive/elevated”, “positive/elevated” or “positive/elevated”.

Cohort Exit
The person exits the cohort at the end of continuous observation.

Recommended Study Application: Outcome or Target

Assertion Statement: This cohort definition was executed on at least one real person-level observational health data source and resulted in a cohort with at least 1 person.

Clinical Description(s): Target surgical cohorts previously described / in the phenotype library. Non emergent (no ED visit) surgical encounters (via target surgery procedure occurrence) requiring inpatient stay. Condition occurrence of atrial fibrillation (first in patient’s history).

Evaluation Conclusion: Pending

** Note that in the evaluated data source (Stanford), the measurement concept gets no patients; counts are driven by c diff condition occurrence; peer review / external validation of this finding would be appreciated, as this may be related to a logical error in the definition, or related to the data source.

Submitted Cohort Definition(s):
CDiff_firstEpisode.txt (10.9 KB)

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