Improve CDM Wiki Text - PROVIDER.PROVIDER_NAME

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Improve CDM Wiki Text - PROVIDER.PROVIDER_NAME

CDM or THEMIS convention?

CDM

Table or Field level?

Field

Is this a general convention?

Field

Summary of issues

• Text in CDM Wiki could be improved upon.

Summary of answer

	USER GUIDE	ETL CONVENTIONS
CURRENTLY	-	This field is not necessary as it is not necessary to have the actual identity of the Provider. Rather, the idea is to uniquely and anonymously identify providers of care across the database
SUGGESTIONS	This field contains information that describes a healthcare provider.	This field is not required for identifying the Provider's actual identity. Instead, its purpose is to uniquely and/or anonymously identify providers of care across the database.

Related links

• OHDSI GitHub.io - Provider
• OHDSI Old WIKI - PROVIDER TABLE

Other comments/notes

• No specific THEMIS GitHub call outs.
• I like adding "A description of the Provider." from the old Wiki. Or "In the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program, "provider_name" is a field in the PROVIDER table that describes a healthcare provider. "