hospital_instance

Description

This table contains healthcare centers or institutions. Each record represents a unique instance, serving as the top-level entity in the organizational hierarchy, with metadata for identification and linkage to downstream entities.

Columns

Field User Guide ETL Conventions Datatype Required Primary Key Foreign Key FK Table
id Unique identifier bigint(64) Yes Yes No
code Code of the instance Should match instance_xxx_id in clinical tables. varchar(30) Yes No No
name Name of the instance varchar(400) Yes No No
upload_id Identifier of the pipeline integration run, used to differentiate each batch of integrated data. Defined at the start of the pipeline as datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S").
For example a batch integrated on 15/09/2025 at 00:00:00 has upload_id = 20250915000000.
bigint(64) No No No
update_date Date and time of the record’s last update. timestamptz No No No