OHDSI / OHDSI/CommonDataModel

Drop table COHORT_DEFINITION

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Description

This table was contrived as a way to define the content of a cohort. That was before ATLAS. There is no need anymore, as we have a different mechanism to achieve that goal.

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  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Search the repository's DDL and documentation for COHORT_DEFINITION and read each occurrence to determine the affected definitions. The change is complete when the obsolete table and its references are removed consistently without leaving a required cohort-definition mechanism behind.

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Assessment

Domain
databases
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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