entities.entity_id

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Last updated: Jun 08, 2015 by Joseph Gulotta
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Entity_id is the primary key for the 'entities' table and one quarter of the primary key of the 'entity_values' table along with measures.measure_id, entity_values.date_start and entity_values.date_end.


This key is used to link values in the 'entity_values' table to the particular physician, practice, nursing home, hospital or geographical location that is being measured.
It is also used to link the values to their footnotes via the 'footnote_values' table.