Questions about the Inputevents table [MIMIC-IV] #1106
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Hi!
I have some questions about the Inputevents table. It'll be really appreciated if you could help me.
(1) I noticed that there is a column called statusdescription in the Inputevents table. The document said "STATUSDESCRIPTION states the ultimate status of the item, or more specifically, row." But I feel it's kind of hard to understand this statement.
Does it mean that the labeled status was what happened after the endtime of that row? For example, if the status was "Changed", was the delivery changed after the end time? Or it might be changed at any time point between starttime and endtime?
(2) Another question is that I find the ORDERCATEGORYDESCRIPTION of many rows are labeled as continuous, but the endtime - starttime is 1. According to the document, "A bolus will be listed as ending one minute after it started, i.e. ENDTIME: STARTTIME + 1 minute". I'm wondering whether those rows are bolus or continuous.
(3) I found that some records in inputevents are not in emar table or prescriptions table. Were these drugs administrated without prescriptions? If those tables have different records, which one should I use?
Thank you very much!!!!
Qinyu