Jesse Raffa

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Hi @lasiadhi, I think we need to do some more work understanding this. @obadawi may be able to provide insight here. For most of the studies we have conducted thus...

Hi @josephcscarpa, It's not uncommon for lab results to be revised. Which result you use will largely depend on your use case. For example, if a treatment was given at...

Hi @tohokulgq, `activetx` is short of 'active treatment'. A list of the active treatments can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232310/ The variable was originally created to distinguish between patients in the...

Possible to pickup some more in the `diagnosis` table.

Yeah, I am not finding many either, although slightly more than 5 (maybe a dozen). There's a chance they were missed during the ETL, because I think there's a set...

Hi @schererdavid, We have very limited data about medications before and after an ICU stay. During, you will find in `infusion drug` and `medication` tables. I'm not a clinician, but...

Yes, there will be some identified in the `admissiondx` table (`admitdxpath` column) as you say. You may pick up a few others in the `apachepredvar` table (`elective` column). In theory...

Negative offsets correspond with times *before* the (ICU) unit admission.

I believe the offsets in `pasthistory` are when the data was entered into eICU, and not when the diagnosis was made. I would say in general, `pasthistory` is likely more...

This is what I ended up doing for Chapter 5: http://physionet.org/physiobank/database/mimic2-iaccd/ I don't know if that helps you or not. `read.csv` can source a url as an argument, so I...