From 090ff44d66cdca8bec03f3d2c239c4434b5a996c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clairblacketer Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:44:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added folders to documentation, added 'The Role of the Common Data Model.md' --- Documentation/{ => Background}/Background.md | 0 .../The Role of the Common Data Model.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) rename Documentation/{ => Background}/Background.md (100%) create mode 100644 Documentation/Background/The Role of the Common Data Model.md diff --git a/Documentation/Background.md b/Documentation/Background/Background.md similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/Background.md rename to Documentation/Background/Background.md diff --git a/Documentation/Background/The Role of the Common Data Model.md b/Documentation/Background/The Role of the Common Data Model.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8424ffc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/Background/The Role of the Common Data Model.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +*OMOP Common Data Model v5.1 Specifications* +
*Authors: Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan, Rimma Belenkaya, Karthik Natarajan, Clair Blacketer* +
***Release date needed*** + +[Back to Table of Contents](TableofContents.md) + +--- + +# The Role of the Common Data Model +No single observational data source provides a comprehensive view of the clinical data a patient accumulates while receiving healthcare, and therefore none can be sufficient to meet all expected outcome analysis needs. This explains the need for assessing and analyzing multiple data sources concurrently using a common data standard. This standard is provided by the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM). + +The CDM is designed to support the conduct of research to identify and evaluate associations between interventions (drug exposure, procedures, healthcare policy changes etc.) and outcomes caused by these interventions (condition occurrences, procedures, drug exposure etc.). Outcomes can be efficacious (benefit) or adverse (safety risk). Often times, specific patient cohorts (e.g., those taking a certain drug or suffering from a certain disease) may be defined for treatments or outcomes, using clinical events (diagnoses, observations, procedures, etc.) that occur in predefined temporal relationships to each other. The CDM, combined with its standardized content (via the Standardized Vocabularies), will ensure that research methods can be systematically applied to produce meaningfully comparable and reproducible results. + +[Back to Background](Background.md) \ No newline at end of file