What is OMOP?

  • Using a standard makes it much easier to share data
  • OMOP uses concepts to link different tables together
  • The concept table contains humanly readable names for concept_ids

Exploring OMOP concepts with R

  • Concepts have additional attributes such as vocabulary, domain, and standard concept status
  • The concept table can be queried using R to retrieve specific attributes of concepts
  • Concepts can be filtered based on their domain and vocabulary
  • Standard concepts are those that are recommended for use in analyses within the OMOP framework

More on concepts

  • OMOP tables contain many concept_ids, usually named with a _concept_id suffix.

  • The concept table can be used to look up humanly readable names for various concept_ids.

  • OMOP tables can be linked using common identifier.