addOutpatientVisits: Add Outpatient and Emergency Visits to a Cohort

In CohortUtilisation: Healthcare Resource Utilization on OMOP CDM Cohorts

Add Outpatient and Emergency Visits to a Cohort

Description

Add Outpatient and Emergency Visits to a Cohort

Usage

addOutpatientVisits(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = list(c(-365, -1), c(0, 365)),
  stratifySpecialty = TRUE,
  gpSpecialtyConceptIds = c(38004446L),
  specialties = NULL,
  includeEmergency = TRUE,
  nameStyle = "{setting}_visits_{window_name}",
  name = NULL
)

Arguments

x	A cohort table or cdm_table.
indexDate	Date variable in x anchoring the observation window. Default: "cohort_start_date".
censorDate	Optional date variable in x to censor observation.
window	A named or unnamed list of 2-element numeric vectors. Default: list(c(-365, -1), c(0, 365)).
stratifySpecialty	Logical; whether to partition visits by GP vs Specialist vs ED. Default: TRUE.
gpSpecialtyConceptIds	OMOP provider specialty concept IDs for General Practice. Default: c(38004446L).
specialties	Optional named list of integer vectors of OMOP specialty concept IDs for granular specialty breakdown. Default: NULL.
includeEmergency	Logical; whether to include emergency visits. Default: TRUE.
nameStyle	Column naming pattern. Default: "{setting}_visits_{window_name}".
name	Name of the new table in the write schema. If NULL, a temporary table is returned.

Value

The cohort table x with added outpatient visit metric columns.

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