I'm confused. You mention 'per participant' but your code doesn't reference a ParticipantID.
Does your data have ParticipantID, StudyID, CareDate?
Can you show, say, 10 sample records of the data you have (with duplicates) and the data you want after de-duplicating?
It's not clear to me if you want the output to be one record per StudyID or one record per ParticipantID.
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