getDescendants

Get descendant codes for a given concept

Generate a candidate code list for the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model based on string matching. For a given search strategy, a candidate code list will be returned.

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getDescendants function

<dl><dt>cdm</dt>
<dd>A cdm reference to an OMOP CDM dataset. If data is held within a
database, the vocabulary tables should be in the same schema as the clinical
tables (person, observation period, and so on).</dd>
<dt>conceptId</dt>
<dd>concept_id to search</dd>
<dt>withAncestor</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, return column with ancestor. In case of multiple
ancestors, concepts will be separated by ";".</dd></dl>

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Get descendant codes for a given concept — getDescendants

<dl>

<dt>cdm</dt>
<dd>A cdm reference to an OMOP CDM dataset. If data is held within a
database, the vocabulary tables should be in the same schema as the clinical
tables (person, observation period, and so on).</dd>


<dt>conceptId</dt>
<dd>concept_id to search</dd>


<dt>withAncestor</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, return column with ancestor. In case of multiple
ancestors, concepts will be separated by ";".</dd>

</dl>

getDescendants: Get descendant codes for a given concept

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