Althaia Data Space

04/08/2025
04/08/2025
Data source
Human
Hospital discharge records
Hospital inpatient records
Hospital outpatient visit records
Pharmacy dispensing records
Access and validation

Governance details

Documents or webpages that describe the overall governance of the data source and processes and procedures for data capture and management, data quality check and validation results (governing data access or utilisation for research purposes).
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Biospecimen access

Are biospecimens available in the data source (e.g., tissue samples)?

No

Access to subject details

Can individual patients/practitioners/practices included in the data source be contacted?

No

Description of data collection

The data from hospital data sources (diagnoses, procedures, treatments, lab results, emergency room activity, structured Rx notes and surgery notes, etc.) is extracted and transformed to OMOP CDM using ETL. Possiblity of structuring and transforming to OMOP additional non-structured data from clinical notes using IA techniques (NLP).
Event triggering registration

Event triggering registration of a person in the data source

Birth
Disease diagnosis
Other
Practice registration
Start of treatment

Event triggering registration of a person in the data source, other

Lab test, inpatient and outpatient visits...
Data source linkage

Linkage

Is the data source described created by the linkage of other data sources (prelinked data source) and/or can the data source be linked to other data source on an ad-hoc basis?

No
Data management specifications that apply for the data source

Data source refresh

Monthly

Informed consent for use of data for research

Possibility of data validation

Can validity of the data in the data source be verified (e.g., access to original medical charts)?

Yes

Data source preservation

Are records preserved in the data source indefinitely?

Yes

Approval for publication

Is an approval needed for publishing the results of a study using the data source?

No

Data source last refresh

Common Data Model (CDM) mapping

CDM mapping

Has the data source been converted (ETL-ed) to a common data model?

Yes

CDM Mappings

Data source ETL CDM version

OMOP CDM 5.4

Data source ETL frequency

0,25 months

Data source ETL status

Completed

Data source ETL specifications (link)