Sharing cohorts

If you have the relevant permissions as part of your role, you can choose to share cohorts with other users. This sharing feature removes the need for users to accurately recreate all the cohort definition criteria themselves if they wish to report on patients meeting similar criteria to those set by a colleague.

Some important points about sharing cohorts:

The Principles of Sharing Data within Atmolytics

Users should be able to freely share information with other users who need to see it. In doing so, they should not be able to:

• Expose other users to information that they should not have access to.

• Make hidden modifications to other users’ content.

Sharing a cohort means that you share the definition of the cohort with the recipient, and not the patients contained within the cohort. If the recipient’s base cohort is different from yours, their version of the shared cohort may contain different patients from yours, but they will be selected using the same criteria.

For example:

Your base cohort consists of all the inpatients in Hospital A and Hospital B. You create a cohort of all the male patients in your base cohort. You then share this cohort with a colleague. Their base cohort only consists of all the inpatients in Hospital A, so their version of your shared cohort will only contain the male patients from Hospital A.

Editing shared cohorts

You can continue to edit a cohort once you’ve shared it, but any changes you make will not be carried over to the recipient unless you choose to share it again.

The recipient of a shared cohort cannot make any changes to the shared cohort. They can, however (assuming they have the necessary user permissions) clone the cohort and edit the clone.

Frozen cohorts and subgroups can be shared with other users, but the following rules apply:

  • Shared subgroups and frozen cohorts cannot be edited or cloned by the recipient.
  • Shared frozen cohorts are named and treated as subgroups in the recipient’s cohort data.
  • Subgroups and frozen cohorts are effectively lists of specific patients. The recipient will only see the patients in that list who they have permission to see. If the recipient’s base cohort is different from the sender’s, their version of the shared group may not contain all the patients in the sender’s version