Vocab. LPD_Belgium

Longitudinal Patient Data Belgium (IQVIA)

Overview

This vocabulary represents medicinal products available on the Belgian market. The vocabulary is licensed by the IQVIA.

Transformation

The procedures for transforming Concepts from the source to the OMOP Standard Vocabularies can be found on the OHDSI GitHub.

Concept Names

The names of source concepts are assigned based on the set of available attributes, directly extracted from the source data.

Concept Code

All codes for both attributive and source concepts with vocabulary are inherited from source data.

Standard Concepts

All Drug concepts are Non-Standard. The majority of the concepts are mapped to standard drugs in the RxNorm, RxNorm Extension, or CVX vocabularies. The Device portion of vocabulary is standard.

Domains

All concepts belong to either Drug or Device domains.

Concept Classes

The LPD_Belgium concepts are either attributive (Dose Form) or source entries (Device, Drug Product).

Dose Form

Device

Drug Product

Concept Relationships

LPD_Belgium to Standard map

LPD_Belgium concepts with drug properties are mapped to Standard Concepts (originating from RxNorm, RxNorm Extension, or CVX vocabularies) through records in the CONCEPT_RELATIONSHIP table.

Hierarchy

LPD_Belgium Concepts are mostly non-Standard Concepts and therefore do not participate in the hierarchy of the CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table.