clean_physician_id: Clean physician identification numbers

View source: R/data-item-cleaning.R

clean_physician_idR Documentation

Clean physician identification numbers

Description

Clean physician identification numbers

Usage

clean_physician_id(physician, keep_unknown = FALSE)

Arguments

physician

A character vector of medical license number or facility-generated codes.

keep_unknown

Replace values for "unknown" with NA?

Value

A character vector with leading and trailing whitespace removed. If keep_unknown is FALSE, blanks and values representing unknown physicians or non-applicable are replaced with NA.


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