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CHQA Analyst take-home task

Data Exercise

This data exercise represents an example of the type of data work we complete. We estimate that the exercise will take 2-3 hours to complete. Please use whatever statistical programming language, programming language, or data manipulation tool you are most comfortable with (SAS, R, SPSS, STATA, Python, SQL, etc).Please note, if you choose to alias tables in your code, we ask that you use descriptive aliases and not single letters.

This exercise will evaluate your ability to build a cohort of patients and calculate some metrics related to that cohort. You should have the following:

If you would like to use a database for this exercise, use these instructions to set up a local Postgres database. Otherwise, you can load the datasets with your programming language of choice.

Instructions

Part 1: Assemble the project cohort

The project goal is to identify patients seen for drug overdose, determine if they had an active opioid at the start of the encounter, and if they had any readmissions for drug overdose.

Your task is to assemble the study cohort by identifying encounters that meet the following criteria:

  1. The patient’s visit is an encounter for drug overdose
  2. The hospital encounter occurs after July 15, 1999
  3. The patient’s age at time of encounter is between 18 and 35 (Patient is considered to be 35 until turning 36)

Part 2: Create additional fields

With your drug overdose encounter, create the following indicators:

  1. DEATH_AT_VISIT_IND: 1 if patient died during the drug overdose encounter, 0 if the patient died at a different time
  2. COUNT_CURRENT_MEDS: Count of active medications at the start of the drug overdose encounter
  3. CURRENT_OPIOID_IND: 1 if the patient had at least one active medication at the start of the overdose encounter that is on the Opioids List (provided below), 0 if not
  4. READMISSION_90_DAY_IND: 1 if the visit resulted in a subsequent drug overdose readmission within 90 days, 0 if not
  5. READMISSION_30_DAY_IND: 1 if the visit resulted in a subsequent drug overdose readmission within 30 days, 0 if not overdose encounter, 0 if not
  6. FIRST_READMISSION_DATE: The date of the index visit's first readmission for drug overdose. Field should be left as N/A if no readmission for drug overdose within 90 days

Part 3: Export the data to a CSV file

Export a dataset containing these required fields:

Field name Field Description Data Type
PATIENT_ID Patient identifier Character String
ENCOUNTER_ID Visit identifier Character string
HOSPITAL_ENCOUNTER_DATE Beginning of hospital encounter date Date/time
AGE_AT_VISIT Patient age at admission Num
DEATH_AT_VISIT_IND Indicator if the patient died during the drug overdose encounter. Leave N/A if patient has not died, 0 /1
COUNT_CURRENT_MEDS Count of active medications at the start of the drug overdose encounter Num
CURRENT_OPIOID_IND if the patient had at least one active medication at the start of the overdose encounter that is on the Opioids List (provided below) 0/1
READMISSION_90_DAY_IND Indicator if the visit resulted in a subsequent readmission within 90 days 0/1
READMISSION_30_DAY_IND Indicator if the visit resulted in a subsequent readmission within 30 days 0/1
FIRST_READMISSION_DATE Date of the first readmission for drug overdose within 90 days. Leave N/A if no readmissions for drug overdose within 90 days. Date/time

Opioids List:

  • Hydromorphone 325Mg
  • Fentanyl – 100 MCG
  • Oxycodone-acetaminophen 100 Ml

Submission Guidelines

Upon completion, please email the following to DataRecruiting@email.chop.edu:

  1. Data Exercise output dataset (.csv) (Please name the .csv file in the following format: "FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME.csv")
  2. Data Exercise code (text file)

Good luck!