Fact Relationship

The FACT_RELATIONSHIP table contains records about the relationships between facts stored as records in any table of the CDM. Relationships can be defined between facts from the same domain (table), or different domains.

Examples of Fact Relationships include:

• Person relationships (parent-child).
• Care Site relationships (hierarchical organizational structure of facilities within a health system).
• Indication relationship (between drug exposures and associated conditions).
• Usage relationships (of devices during the course of an associated procedure).
• Facts derived from one another (measurements derived from an associated specimen).

Field	Required	Type	FK Table	Description
domain_concept_id_1	Yes	bigint	CONCEPT	The concept representing the domain of fact one, from which the corresponding table can be inferred.
fact_id_1	Yes	bigint		The unique identifier in the table corresponding to the domain of fact one.
domain_concept_id_2	Yes	bigint	CONCEPT	The concept representing the domain of fact two, from which the corresponding table can be inferred.
fact_id_2	Yes	bigint		The unique identifier in the table corresponding to the domain of fact two.
relationship_concept_id	Yes	bigint	CONCEPT	A foreign key to a Standard Concept ID in the Standardized Vocabularies, representing the kind of relationship.

Conventions

• All relationships are directional, and each relationship is represented twice symmetrically within the FACT_RELATIONSHIP table. For example, for two Persons where person_id = 1 is the mother of person_id = 2, then two records are created:

  domain_concept_id_1	fact_id_1	domain_concept_id_2	fact_id_2	relationship_concept_id
  1147314|person	1	1147314|person	2	4248584|Mother
  1147314|person	2	1147314|person	1	4285883|Child