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Caregivers are the medical staff who are responsible for
patients during their hospital stay such as: nurses, residents
or other clinicians. The caregivers are stored in the
D_CAREGIVER table, and are uniquely identified by their care
giver id (cgid). The caregivers table is related to many other
tables such as medevents, noteevents and chartevents and is used
to record the care giver who performed a particular operation,
procedure or event. Figure 2.3 shows the inter table
relationships of the caregivers table.  Figure 2.3: Caregivers
table relationships. Although a simple table with only 2
columns, the caregivers table is related to many other tables in
the database. Caregivers are assigned to inter alia medical
events, problems and notes. Image Caregivers