Patients have edregtime in hosp, but no intime in the ED dataset.
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Description
Many patients have an edregtime/edouttime in their hosp dataset. However, there are not entries for them in the ED dataset. See the following example, where hospital and ED data were joined based on hadm_id:
Is there any explanation for that? Specificially, were these patients in the ED, or not?
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Start with the example in the issue and review how the hosp and ED datasets are joined by hadm_id. Check the dataset documentation or source definitions for edregtime, edouttime, and intime, then document whether the records represent ED visits and why matching entries may be absent.
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