extractDemographics: Extract demographics

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

Description

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

Usage

extractDemographics(connection, patients = NULL, n = -1)

Arguments

connection	ODBC connection object returned by dbConnect.
patients	A character vector of patient medical record numbers. If no limit is desired then set as NULL.
n	Number of records to retrieve. Use n = -1 to retrieve all records.

Value

Returns a data frame with patient demographics from the Diamonds database. PatientAge and PatientAgeGroup are added columns calculated from today's date. RacialGroup column is also added which aggregates similar races into a single group.

davidcoffey/Nexus documentation built on March 10, 2020, 4:54 p.m.