fail_no_culture_conversion.epiinfo: Fail - no culture conversion

Description Usage Arguments Author(s) See Also

View source: R/fail_no_culture_conversion.epiinfo.R

Description

This function detects with a record diagnosed with DR-TB should receive a failure outcome due to lack of culture conversion before a defined time-point. The WHO 2014 definitions suggests this time-point to be 8 months after treatment commencement.

Usage

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## S3 method for class 'epiinfo'
fail_no_culture_conversion(adm_lab, no_cc_days = 240)

Arguments

adm_lab

data frame of individual patient records cleaned with 'tbcleanr' and combined with laboratory data using 'tbgeneratr::adm_lab_generator()'

no_cc_days

time cut-off in days to define failure to culture convert. Default value (240 days) taken from 2014 WHO definition of 8 months

Author(s)

Jay Achar

See Also

tbgeneratr


JayAchar/tbgeneratr documentation built on Oct. 13, 2019, 1:47 a.m.