HELP: Health evaluation and linkage to primary care

HELPR Documentation

Health evaluation and linkage to primary care

Description

A clinical trial for patients in a residential detoxification programme. Patients were randomised to either get a referral to a HELP clinic or not.

Usage

HELP

Format

A data frame with 447 rows and 7 variables:

subject

integer subject id

days

integer time to linkage to primary care in days

status

integer event indicator (0=no linkage, 1=linkage)

age

integer age of patient in years

gender

integer gender of the patient (0=female, 1=male)

housing

integer Homelessness status (0=homeless, 1=housed)

linkage

integer assistance to linking to healthcare (0=no, 1=yes)

Details

Collett (2023) defines this dataset as "help", however that leads to issues with using R's help system. We have changed the dataset name to "HELP". Moreover, the book uses the variables "Time" an d"Help", whereas the dataset includes variables "days" and "linkage", respectively.


collett documentation built on April 3, 2025, 5:53 p.m.