Hello Jay, RE: Encounter Number in Epic and non-Epic systems You are right that in Epic, the encounter number is an auto-incrementing integer field, which is used as the primary key of the Encounters table. I would be surprised if you don't have such a field (or a set of fields that would comprise a composite primary key, such as a combination of the Patient ID and the date/time of the encounter) in your own schema. Since the PCORNET CDM uses TEXT(x) as the datatype of the Encounter ID, you could use the concatenation without any problem. As long as the value is unique, nothing else matters, as long as you can represent the final value textually.
RE: Encounter type - Epic does have a field called ENC_TYPE_C that records an enumeration to track this (though Emergency Visits don't make it into U. Iowa's Lookup table that stores Encounter Types, which has some 100+ categories - Emergency visits must be determined by checking the Department ID of the encounter, and matching it against the several ER Departments within the UIHC system. If you are not recording this at Marshfield, you could just use the "Unknown" category of the CDM. Prakash . ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________
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