Concepts
The MHDR is about Concepts!
The MHDR contains clinical data from Boston Medical Center and our affiliated community health centers. The concept_dimension table links the different concepts together into the ontologies so that different codes that mean the same thing can be grouped together for analysis.
| concept_dimension | |
| Variable | Name |
| CONCEPT_PATH | varchar |
| CONCEPT_CD | varchar |
| NAME_CHAR | varchar |
| CONCEPT_BLOB | text |
| UPDATE_DATE | datetime |
| DOWNLOAD_DATE | datetime |
| IMPORT_DATE | datetime |
| SOURCESYSTEM_CD | varchar |
| UPLOAD_ID | int |
Numerous ontologies have been developed in the MHDR, and to enable consistent mapping of concepts across different facilities we have made several of them available at the DHOME project website.