baseliner.koch6: Baseline culture or smear status
In JayAchar/tbgeneratr: tbgenratr: tools for generating new TB variables

This function takes a list, including nested data frames of TB admission and laboratory programme data, uses a unique patient identifier, dates of treatment start and sample submission and sample results to calculate baseline culture or smear status. The function requires admission and laboratory data to have been prepared with the tbcleanr package and for the admission data to have class of either "epiinfo" or "koch6"

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## S3 method for class 'koch6'
baseliner(adm, lab, baseline_test = c("culture",
  "smear"), baseline_days = 90)

`adm`	data frame containing TB admission data cleaned and allocated object class by tbcleanr package
`lab`	data frame containing TB laboratory data cleaned and allocated object class by tbcleanr package
`baseline_test`	define which baseline test result to check
`baseline_days`	criteria for using pre-treatment samples