decision_10: Decision 10: close small gaps between successive...

In drugprepr: Prepare Electronic Prescription Record Data to Estimate Drug Exposure

Description

Where one prescription (for the same drug and patient) starts only a short time after the previous finishes, this function can close the gap, as if the prescription was continuous over the entire period.

Usage

decision_10(data, decision = "a")

Arguments

data	a data frame
decision	one of the following strings: "a" do nothing "b_15" change stop date of first prescription to start date of next if gap is ≤q 15 days "b_30" change stop date of first prescription to start date of next if gap is ≤q 30 days "b_60" change stop date of first prescription to start date of next if gap is ≤q 60 days

Details

The underlying function is called close_small_gaps

See Also

Other decision functions: decision_1(), decision_2(), decision_3(), decision_4(), decision_5(), decision_6(), decision_7(), decision_8(), decision_9(), drug_prep()

drugprepr documentation built on Nov. 10, 2021, 1:07 a.m.