mandatory_age_group: Create age group from age

In PublicHealthEngland/hcaidcs: R functions for the mandatory surveillance of bacteraemia and C. difficile infection

Create age group from age

Description

Creates age group as ordered factor according to standard ages for HCAIDCS. Values are rounded down using floor before grouping.

Usage

mandatory_age_group(x, collection = NULL)

Arguments

x	A numeric vector giving age in years, calculated by mandatory_age
collection	An optional parameter giving the collection for CDI age grouping. If the collection is not given, the bacteraemia age grouping is applied.

Value

A factor vector with levels <1 1-14 15-44 45-64 65-74 75-84 ge85 for bacteraemia or 2-14 15-44 45-64 65-74 75-84 ge85 for cdi.

See Also

mandatory_age

Examples

mandatory_age_group(0)
mandatory_age_group(x = 0)
mandatory_age_group(0, "MRSA")
mandatory_age_group(0, "cdi")
mandatory_age_group(1, "cdi")
mandatory_age_group(2, "cdi")
mandatory_age_group(0.038)
mandatory_age_group(1)
mandatory_age_group(14)
mandatory_age_group(15)
mandatory_age_group(seq(1,100, 1))
mandatory_age_group(seq(1,100, 1), "cdi")

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