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onsite and remote physicians data

Open jimmyqiqin opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Could anyone please help me better understand the table "carePlanCareProvider"? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I interpreted that the providers listed in this table are all from the on-site team. For each patient-unit-stay, a physician decides the level of intervention from the eICU team. But I still have questions as follows:

  • For each patient-unit-stay, there could be several managing physician entries at different times. Should I consider them most likely to be the same physician that takes charge of the patient?
  • Does the intervention level pre-determined by the physician in advance, or determined by the physician at each time when they see the patient?
  • Also, careProviderSaveOffset is explained as "number of minutes from unit admit time that the care provider was entered". I was wondering what does "the care provider was entered" exactly mean? What triggers an entering of one row of the data?
  • Is there anywhere I can access any information about the eICU team?

In the table description (https://eicu-crd.mit.edu/eicutables/careplancareprovider/), I read "intervention category which denotes the level of oversight and intervention authorized for eICU clinicians for the patient by a managing physician". However, both managing and consulting physicians could have the intervention value. I assume the description was not accurate, and should be rephrased as "the level of oversight and intervention authorized for eICU clinicians for the patient by the corresponding physician"?

Many thanks!

jimmyqiqin avatar Apr 22 '23 21:04 jimmyqiqin