The PROVIDER table contains a list of uniquely identified healthcare providers. These are individuals providing hands-on healthcare to patients, such as physicians, nurses, midwives, physical therapists, etc.
Table Specifications
Please submit values for all fields if the information is available, even if the field is not required for export.
Table Conventions
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Many sources do not make a distinction between individual and institutional providers. The PROVIDER table contains the individual providers.
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If the source, instead of uniquely identifying individual providers, only provides limited information such as specialty, generic or "pooled" Provider records are listed in the PROVIDER table.
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A single Provider cannot be listed twice (be duplicated) in the table. If a Provider has more than one Specialty, the main or most often exerted specialty should be recorded.
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Valid Specialty Concepts belong to the 'Provider' domain.
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The care_site_id represents a fixed relationship between a Provider and her main Care Site. Providers are also linked to Care Sites through Condition, Procedure, and Visit records.
Source: OMOP_CDM_v5_2