On 2/12/08, Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear STATA-lister,
> I am preparing database in EpiData then to move it into STATA. I will
> be reviewing patients' records over different visits time.
> Would it better to design it as relational database if later on I can
> rearrange observations* in rows using STATA.
> or
> better to enter every observation* as new records?
I would suggest having two files: patients and visits, and have
patientid in each of them.
Best regards, Sergiy
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> *New observation = new visit for the same patient
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> Thank you in advance and best regards
> ziad
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