extractLabs: Extract labs

In davidcoffey/Diamonds: For clinical data mining of the Caisis and Diamonds databases

Description

Extracts patient labs from the Diamonds database and returns a data frame.

Usage

extractLabs(connection, labs = NULL, patients = NULL, format = "raw",
  n = -1)

Arguments

connection	ODBC connection object returned by dbGetQuery.
labs	A character vector of lab test identifiers. Refer to the University of Washington Lab Medicine website to search of test codes (http://menu.labmed.washington.edu/oltg). If no limit is desired then set as NULL.
patients	A character vector of patient medical record numbers. If no limit is desired then set as NULL.
format	A character vector indicating the output format. Options include "raw", "byObservationId", "byDaysFromFirstObservation", or "byObservationDate".
n	Number of records to retrieve. Use n = -1 to retrieve all records.

Value

Returns a data frame with patient labs from the Diamonds database.

davidcoffey/Diamonds documentation built on March 8, 2020, 12:34 a.m.