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date = "2015-09-01T19:34:46-04:00"
title = "The caregivers table"
linktitle = "CAREGIVERS"
weight = 12
toc = "true"

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Table source: CareVue and Metavision ICU databases.

Table purpose: Defines the role of caregivers.

Number of rows: 7567

Links to:

• CHARTEVENTS on CGID

Brief summary

This table provides information regarding care givers. For example, it would define if a care giver is a research nurse (RN), medical doctor (MD), and so on.

Table columns

Detailed Description

The CAREGIVERS table provides information regarding the type of caregiver. Each caregiver is represented by a unique integer which maps to this table.

CGID

CGID is a unique identifier for each distinct caregiver present in the database. CGID is sourced from two tables in the raw data: the CareVue and Metavision ICU databases. Due to imprecision in the storage of unique identifiers across the database, it is possible that two distinct caregivers with the same names (e.g. RN Sarah Jones and MD Sarah Jones) would be considered as the same caregiver. However, this is an unlikely occurrence.

LABEL

LABEL defines the type of caregiver: e.g. RN, MD, PharmD, etc. Note that LABEL is a free text field and as such contains many typographical errors and spelling variants of the same concept (e.g. MD, MDs, M.D.).

DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION is less frequently present than LABEL, and provides additional information regarding the caregiver. This column is much more structured, and contains only 17 unique values as of MIMIC-III v1.0.