Process Medicare inpatient admissions data inside the database

Source code

Workflow

Description

This workflow processes raw Medicare admissions (aka Medpar or inpatient admissions - ip) data. The assumed initial state is that raw data (medpar files) are already in the database. We assume that the data for each year is in a separate table. The first step combines these disparate tables into a single view, creating uniform columns.

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
database	File		Path to database connection file, usually database.ini
connection_name	string		The name of the section in the database.ini file
limit	string?		limit number of records processed (for debugging)
depends_on	File?		a special field used to enforce dependencies and execution order

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
ip_create_log	File
ip_create_err	File
adm_create_log	File
adm_create_err	File
adm_populate_log	File
adm_populate_err	File
adm_index_log	File
adm_index_err	File
adm_vacuum_log	File
adm_vacuum_err	File

Steps

Name	Runs	Description
create_ip	medicare_combine_tables.cwl	Combines patient summaries from disparate summary tables (one table per year) into a single view: medicare.ip
create_admissions_table	create.cwl	Create empty admissions table based on medicare.ip view
populate_admissions_table	create.cwl	Creates Admisssions Table from the view
index_admissions_table	index.cwl	Build indices
vacuum_admissions_table	vacuum.cwl	Vacuum the view