find_patients: Find Patients who see PCP's of interest within past year

In jjwillard/wfbmcr: Clean and Model EHR Data - WFBMC

Description

This function allows you to find the patients who see PCP's of interest and who have had visits within one year of the cutoff date.

Usage

find_patients(df, cutoff_date, vec_of_pcps, pcp_var, pat_mrn, enc_date_var)

Arguments

df	EHR dataset which has had dates properly formatted by format_ehr_date function
cutoff_date	End date of interest in month-day-4digityear format (ie. 11012018 is Nov 1, 2018)
vec_of_pcps	A vector listing names of PCP's in format found in EHR
pcp_var	The variable name which includes the names of the PCP's
pat_mrn	The variable name which includes the Patient MRN information
enc_date_var	The variable name which includes information pertaining to visit/encounter dates

Value

A subsetted data frame which includes patients with PCP's of interest and within date range

Examples

## Not run: 
find_patients(df, cutoff_date, vec_of_pcps = pcp_vec, pcp_var = Patient.PCP,
pat_mrn = Patient.MRN, enc_date_var = Encounter.Date)

## End(Not run)

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