definition_search: This function is used to build new definition lists based on...

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

Description

This function is used to build new definition lists based on medical definitions

Usage

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definition_search(def, medical_table = NULL, test_table = NULL,
  drug_table = NULL, lookup = NULL)

Arguments

def

an object of class MedicalDefinition

medical_table

Dataframe lookup table of clinical codes

test_table

dataframe lookup table of test codes

drug_table

dataframe lookup table of medication product codes

lookup

list containing elements: "codes", "terms", "tests", "drugs", "drugcodes" (see details)

Details

You may get an invalid multibyte string error, in which case, set fileEncoding="latin1" on read.delim when reading in the lookup tables Lookup tables are

Examples

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## Not run: 
medical_table <- read.delim("medical.txt", fileEncoding="latin1", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
drug_table <- read.delim("product.txt", fileEncoding="latin1", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
def2 <- import_definition_lists(system.file("extdata", "example_search.csv",
                                            package = "rpcdsearch"))
draft_lists <- definition_search(def2, medical_table, drug_table = drug_table)

## End(Not run)

rEHR documentation built on Jan. 23, 2017, 1 p.m.

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