simulate_ehr_events: Generate simulated events tables

In rEHR: Manipulating and Analysing Electronic Health Record Data

Description

This function can generate events for clinical, referral and therapy tables. These are based on the consultation tables generated by simulate_ehr_consultations.

Usage

simulate_ehr_events(ehr_def, consultation, event_type = c("clinical",
  "referral", "therapy"), cores = 1, therapy_lookup = NULL)

Arguments

ehr_def	an object of class link{EHR_definition}
consultation	a dataframe of simulated patient consultations
event_type	Type of events to be generated
cores	number of processor cores to use in generating the data
therapy_lookup	lookup table for drug therapy events e.g. link{product}

Details

This function is relatively basic - for clinical and referral tables, it generates events according to the comorbidities defined in the ehr_def, with the mean number of events for each consultation being defined in the ehr_def for that event_type. For therapy events, the function simply samples the therapy_lookup table, with the mean number of events for each consultation being defined in the ehr_def for therapy. Therefore, at the moment, the therapies bear no relationship to the conditions the patient has and are only for the purposes of explaining the functioning of the package. The random sampling is based on a poisson distribution

Value

dataframe

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