Descriptive Text for PROVIDER.SPECIALTY_SOURCE_VALUE

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Descriptive Text for PROVIDER.SPECIALTY_SOURCE_VALUE

CDM or THEMIS convention?

CDM

Table or Field level?

Field

Is this a general convention?

One Field

Summary of issues

• The text in the CDM documentation can be cleaned up a bit

Summary of answer

Improve the text here: https://ohdsi.github.io/CommonDataModel/cdm53.html#provider

	USER GUIDE	ETL CONVENTIONS
ORIGINAL	This is the kind of provider or specialty as it appears in the source data. This includes physician specialties such as internal medicine, emergency medicine, etc. and allied health professionals such as nurses, midwives, and pharmacists.	Put the kind of provider as it appears in the source data. This field is up to the discretion of the ETL-er as to whether this should be the coded value from the source or the text description of the lookup value.
SUGGETION	This refers to the specific type of healthcare provider or field of expertise listed in the source data, encompassing physician specialties like internal medicine, emergency medicine, etc., as well as allied health professionals such as nurses, midwives, and pharmacists. It covers medical specialties like surgery, internal medicine, and radiology, while other services like prosthetics, acupuncture, and physical therapy fall under the domain of "Service."	The type of provider and their specialty should be entered as they appear in the source data. The decision to use either the coded value or the text description is left to the discretion of the ETL-er.

Related links

• CDM Github.IO Site - Provider
• CDM +THEMIS Workgroup Meeting 21Jan2020
  • I like the language in here for SOURCE_VALUE
• Care sites and specialty, specialty code clean-up
  • Christian does a nice job defining specialty that I may steal
• How to deal with sub-specialty in German EMR data?
• Provider Specialty code set clean up

Other comments/notes

• Don't necessarily see a THEMIS rule outside the one already captured Duplicate Providers? #161
• I think the CDM documentation could be improved, will recommend a CDM doc change