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Update OP Visit definition
The OutPatient visit definition in the conventions section of the Visit Occurrence table isn't very clear. Per the forum post [here](Outpatient Visit: Person visiting dedicated ambulatory healthcare institution, at a Care Site, within one day, without bed, with physicians or medical Providers delivering service during Visit), we should change the following wording.
Current definition: "Outpatient Visit: Person visiting dedicated ambulatory healthcare institution, at a Care Site, within one day, without bed, with physicians or medical Providers delivering service during Visit"
Suggested definition: Outpatient Visit: Person visiting dedicated ambulatory healthcare institution, at a Care Site, within one day, with physicians or medical Providers delivering service during Visit"
The words, "without bed" have been removed.
Could you please update the definition here (https://ohdsi.github.io/CommonDataModel/cdm54.html#VISIT_OCCURRENCE) as well? This definition still has "without bed" for the outpatient visit. Thanks!
Should we say "typically without bed"? Because that is the case in 99.99% of the ambulatory visits. Stretchers don't count as beds.
This is the discussion on the forum https://forums.ohdsi.org/t/outpatient-visit-definition-within-the-visit-occurrence-table/17718/6?u=solmaz.eradat . Its was the use of the work bed in the sentance that added some confusion when we initally came across this in the table.
