A Realism-Based View on Counts in OMOP's Common Data Model.
Correctly counting entities is a requirement for analytics tools to function appropriately. The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership's (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) specifications were examined to assess the extent to which counting in OMOP CDM compatible data repositories would work as expected. To that end, constructs (tables, fields and attributes) defined in the OMOP CDM as well as cardinality constraints and other business rules found in its documentation and related literature were compared to the types of entities and axioms proposed in realism-based ontologies. It was found that not only the model itself, but also a proposed standard algorithm for computing condition eras may lead to erroneous counting of several sorts of entities.
['Ceusters|Werner|W|', 'Blaisure|Jonathan|J|']
D000465:Algorithms D016208:Databases, Factual D006801:Humans D013223:Statistics as Topic
OMOP Common data models realism-based ontologies