There is a tricky point here, @FrankFox. Surveys are good to collect medical facts. But then the question is how are they represented. They can be represented in the SURVEY (not OBSERVATION) table, and you can have all the question-answer pairs you need. In fact, we can just upload your survey and make them standard concepts. The problem with that is that only people familiar with the survey will look for it, or even know it’s there. Remember, we are doing remote network research, nobody can see behind the firewall. So, what needs to happen is that the survey question-answer pairs need to be mapped to the actual facts and put into the CONDITION_OCCURRENCE, DRUG_EXPOSURE, PROCEDURE_OCCURRENCE and OBSERVATION tables, respectively. So, when in USAGI you need to do the following: Take a question-answer pair (not separately, USAGI cannot do that) and define the Domain. In that Domain, find the right concept.
For example, let’s say your Survey has the question “What chronic diseases are you suffering from?” and the answers are “Type 2 Diabetes”, “High blood pressure” and “Depression”. You then upload these pairs (e.g. “What chronic diseases are you suffering from - Type 2 Diabetes” and find the Standard Concept (Type 2 diabetes mellitus).
That is in the Type Concept. So, e.g. the PROCEDURE_OCCURRENCE record will have in condition_type_concept_id the value 581412 - Procedure Recorded from a Survey. We are in the process of consolidating these, so this particular Concept is going away soon. But the same principle will apply.
Works?