sequence-validity

name	sequence-validity
description	Validate temporal ordering of date variables in a QUIQ-format table. Uses Claude CLI to automatically identify start/end date variable pairs, then checks whether start_date <= end_date for each matched record. No API key required. Use for LYDUS data quality assessment of chronological consistency.
tier	community
category	lydus
parameters	{"quiq_path":{"description":"Path to QUIQ-format CSV file. Must contain rows where Mapping_info_1 contains 'date'.","type":"string"},"save_path":{"description":"Directory path to save output files.","type":"string"}}

Sequence Validity

Validates the chronological ordering of date variables in a QUIQ-format table. Claude CLI automatically identifies meaningful (start, end) date pairs (e.g., admission → discharge), then checks whether start_date ≤ end_date for each matched patient record.

When to Use This Skill

• After QUIQ conversion, to detect records where events occur in impossible or illogical order (e.g., discharge before admission)
• To assess chronological consistency of temporal data
• As part of LYDUS quality management assessment

SQL Support

Not applicable. Claude CLI is required to identify date-variable pairs.

Filtering Logic

Condition	Value
Mapping_info_1	contains date (case-insensitive)
Value	parsed as datetime

Pipeline

1. Extract date rows — filter Mapping_info_1 contains date, parse Value as datetime
2. Collect unique identifiers — Original_table_name - Variable_name for all date variables
3. LLM pair identification — send identifier list to Claude CLI; receive timepoint_pairs list
4. LLM exclusion rules:
   • Non-time variables excluded
   • Unpaired time variables excluded
   • Sensitive/complex variables excluded (death_time, year_of_birth, diagnosis_date, etc.)
   • Additional-context-required pairs excluded
5. Validation — for each pair: merge on (Patient_id, Original_table_name, Primary_key), check Start_date ≤ End_date
6. Summary — per-(table, start_var, end_var): Total_num, Invalid_num, Sequence_Validity (%)

Output

File	Description
sequence_validity_total.txt	Overall Sequence Validity (%), Total Num, Invalid Num
sequence_validity_summary.csv	Per-(table, start_var, end_var): counts and Sequence_Validity (%)
sequence_validity_detail.csv	Per-record: Start_date, End_date, Is_valid

How to Run

import pandas as pd
from scripts.sequence_validity import get_sequence_validity

quiq = pd.read_csv("/path/to/quiq.csv")

df_total, df_summary = get_sequence_validity(
    quiq=quiq
)

total_num = df_summary['Total_num'].sum()
invalid_num = df_summary['Invalid_num'].sum()
seq_validity = round((total_num - invalid_num) / total_num * 100, 2)
print(f"Sequence Validity (%) = {seq_validity}")
print(df_summary)

As a script with config

# config.yaml
quiq_path: /path/to/quiq.csv
save_path: /path/to/output

python scripts/sequence_validity.py --config config.yaml

Critical Notes

1. Same-table constraint — pairs spanning different tables are skipped. Start and end variables must be from the same Original_table_name.

2. LLM 응답 파싱 — Claude CLI는 timepoint_pairs = [(...), ...] 형식으로 응답해야 함. = 기준으로 분리 후 ast.literal_eval 파싱. 형식 불일치 시 ValueError 발생. 응답이 마크다운 코드블록을 포함하면 파싱 실패할 수 있으니 system prompt의 output format 예시를 그대로 따르도록 설계됨.

3. 날짜 변환 실패 — pd.to_datetime(..., errors='coerce')로 변환 불가한 값은 NaT → dropna() 로 제외됨.

4. 원본 코드 개선 사항:

   • combined_time_df['Value'] = ... SettingWithCopyWarning → .copy() 후 할당
   • LLM 응답 파싱 try/except 추가 (원본은 파싱 실패 시 unhandled exception)
   • _validate_sequence 내 pd.concat loop → list 수집 후 한 번에 concat
   • os.path.join 사용 (문자열 연결 대신)
   • required=True for --config

5. Dependencies — pandas, numpy (LLM: Claude CLI via subprocess, timeout 180s)

References

• LYDUS 품질관리 프로그램 활용 가이드라인 (비공개 내부 문서)
• Original Python implementation: LYDUS_Sequence_Validity.py (이성민 작성)