f.numTestArmsSubstances: Calculate type of control data collected in a study

In ctrdata: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials Data from Public Registers

Calculate type of control data collected in a study

Description

Trial concept calculated: number of active arms with different investigational medicines, after excluding comparator, auxiliary and placebo arms / medicines. For ISRCTN, this is imprecise because arms are not identified in a field. Most registers provide no or only limited information on phase 1 trials, so that this number typically cannot be calculated for these trials. Requires packages stringdist to be installed; stringdist is used for evaluating names of active substances, which are considered similar when the similarity is 0.8 or higher.

Usage

f.numTestArmsSubstances(df = NULL)

Arguments

df	data frame such as from dbGetFieldsIntoDf. If 'NULL', prints fields needed in 'df' for calculating this trial concept, which can be used with dbGetFieldsIntoDf.

Value

data frame with columns '_id' and '.numTestArmsSubstances', an integer

Examples

# fields needed
f.controlType()

# apply trial concept when creating data frame
dbc <- nodbi::src_sqlite(
  dbname = system.file("extdata", "demo.sqlite", package = "ctrdata"),
  collection = "my_trials", flags = RSQLite::SQLITE_RO)
trialsDf <- dbGetFieldsIntoDf(
  calculate = "f.numTestArmsSubstances",
  con = dbc)
trialsDf

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