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Top 10 Patients by Adherence
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Top 10 Patients by Adherence

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

What SQL query would you write to identify the top 10 patients by treatment adherence score?

Assume each patient can have multiple adherence observations. Calculate each patient's average non-null adherence score and exclude patients without a valid score.

Output

  1. One row per patient, with patient_id, patient_name, and treatment_adherence_score
  2. Return at most 10 patients, ordered by score descending, then patient_id ascending for ties

Schema

patients
ColumnTypeDescription
patient_idPKINTUnique patient identifier
patient_nameVARCHAR(100)Patient display name
treatment_adherence
ColumnTypeDescription
adherence_idPKINTUnique adherence observation identifier
patient_idINTPatient associated with the observation
observation_dateDATEDate of the adherence observation
adherence_scoreNUMERIC(5,2)Adherence score for the observation, on a 0 to 1 scale
Tablespatientstreatment_adherence
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