March 24 Meeting summary
This week we reviewed the problems associated with integration of CVX with the drug hierarchy. A draft document is in preparation.
The OHDSI vocab team uses a “top down/high level” approach to integrate CVX with ATC, RxNorm and other vaccine related vocabularies. The Merck team adopted a bottom up data driven approach by specifying the vaccine concepts, relationships and their issues occurred in real world databases. These two approaches complement each other and allow us to have a thorough investigation in vaccine vocabularies in OMOP CDM.
Yupeng highlighted three major opportunities for vaccine concept improvement
- Improve the hierarchy among vaccine concepts
- Check the mappings from source concepts to standard concepts to ensure the mappings are correct without losing useful information.
- Map all vaccine exposures to the drug domain.
Meeting agenda for next week 3/31
- Denys will present findings from the manual review of “maps to” relationships
- Mik will present slides explaining current thinking about integration of CVX with RxNorm and ATC
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