Community contribution

Here you can find information about how to contribute your content to the OHDSI Vocabularies. The contributions will be incorporated in the next release if they are submitted and approved at least 2 months before the target release date.

Part 1: simple use-cases

Part I guidance covers:

1. adding new simple non-standard vocabulary with mappings but no other internal relationships
2. adding new non-standard concept(s) to vocabularies in Athena
3. adding new mappings for existing concepts (non-standard to standard and standard to standard or deduplication)
4. changing existing concept attributes (such as domain)
5. changing existing mappings
6. promoting non-standard concept(s) to standard

Part 2: complex use-cases

Part 2 covers:

1. Adding new relationships other then 'Maps to' such as hierarchiers - under construction, please come to the Vocabulary WG meeting
2. Adding or refreshing drug vocabularies (incorporation of source drug vocabularies into the OHDSI Vocabularies through a systematic process or using such a process to map your drugs).
3. Adding or refreshing complex non-drug vocabularies

Please note that community contribution concerns adding or modifying the content related to structured vocabularies (entities that have identifiers, standardized names, and external references). If you are interested in adding free-text content (such as strings from flowsheets), please contact us by creating a GitHub issue, coming to the Vocabulary WG call or the Healthcare Systems Special Interest WG call.