create_mortality_outcomes: Creat New Enrollee Mortality Outcomes

In evanjflack/polypharmacy: Behavioral Hazard and Patient Decision Making

Description

create_mortality_outcomes() is a function that makes indicators for both cumulative mortality and mortality hazard for the new enrollee sample.

Usage

create_mortality_outcomes(
  DT_deaths,
  DT_id = "pde_benes",
  start_day = 0,
  int = 30,
  int_num = 12
)

Arguments

DT_deaths	data.table with bene_id, and from_days (days from specified starting point until death)
DT_id	data table with bene_id
start_day	integer (default = 0), when to start counting outcomes from
int	integer (default = 30), length of mortality intervals
int_num	interger (default = 12), number of intervals to iterate through

Value

a data.table with the following colums:

bene_id
mort_X	Indicator for mortality from start day to X days, e.g. mort_30
mort_X_Y	Indicator for mortality between X and Y days, e.g. mort_30_60

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