guarantor discharge date

guar_dsch_dt

general

Updated 3/30/2026

Definition

The hospital release date for a financially responsible party. Used to track temporal information related to guarantor discharge date. This field is commonly used in electronic health records (EHR), healthcare information systems (HIS), and clinical data warehouses for guarantor management and reporting.

Standard Abbreviation

guar_dsch_dt

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  guar_dsch_dt DATE,  -- guarantor discharge date (date only, no time)
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  guar_dsch_dt as guarantor_discharge_date
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

Healthcare data warehouse schema design and modeling
Interoperability and cross-system data exchange
ETL pipeline development and orchestration
Master data management (MDM) programs
Analytics and business intelligence reporting

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
guar_dsch_dt

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  guar_dsch_dt DATE,  -- guarantor discharge date (date only, no time)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

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