m4_drgcodes: Access billed DRG codes for hospitalizations

In hdshea/MIMIC4db: Package for building, loading and referencing the Google BigQuery verion of the MIMIC-IV

Description

This function provides base access to the drgcodes table containing data pertaining to diagnosis related groups (DRGs) which are used by the hospital to obtain reimbursement for a patient’s hospital stay. The codes correspond to the primary reason for a patient’s stay at the hospital.

Usage

m4_drgcodes(con, cohort = NULL, ...)

Arguments

con	A bigrquery::bigquery() DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect() with an appropriate bigrquery::bigquery() DBI driver specified in the call.
cohort	an optional vector of patient IDs defining the cohort of interest
...	additional optional passed along parameters.

Details

Table attributes for drgcodes table:

(PKEY subject_id, hadm_id, drg_type, drg_code)

(FKEY subject_id) -> patients table

(FKEY hadm_id) -> admissions table

Value

a tibble with the results.

Examples

# To run examples, you must have the BIGQUERY_TEST_PROJECT environment
# variable set to name of project which has billing set up and to which
# you have write access.
con <- bigrquery::dbConnect(
  bigrquery::bigquery(),
  project = bigrquery::bq_test_project(),
  quiet = TRUE
)

drgc <- m4_drgcodes(con, cohort = 10137012)
dim(drgc)

bigrquery::dbDisconnect(con)

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