I think I said that adding columns to the dimension tables such as patient_dimension has been a documented i2b2 technique as far back as 1.3 or 1.4.
Double-checking, I find: "The Patient table may have an unlimited number of optional columns and their data types and coding systems are local implementation-specific." -- 3.3 PATIENT_DIMENSION i2b2 Clinical Research Chart (CRC) Design Document Document Version: 1.1 I2b2 Software Release: 1.4 https://www.i2b2.org/software/projects/hivecore/i2b2core-doc-14.zip I don't believe I had anything to say about what the slides said about modifiers (i.e. that they appear in 1.6). -- Dan ________________________________ From: Greater Plains Collaborative Software Development [[email protected]] on behalf of Campbell, James R [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Minutes of GPV-DEV call 20140128 GPC standard data model JRC: i2b2 documentation reports changes in functionality by version (now 1.7). Will minimum version be required for data standardization? DC: although documentation reports differently, modifiers available in v1.3
