detect.overlapping.events: Merge overlapping admissions so that days are not counted...

In mattmoo/daohtools: Tools for working with registry data and transforming to days alive and out of hospital (DAOH)

Merge overlapping admissions so that days are not counted twice.

Description

Merge overlapping admissions so that days are not counted twice.

Usage

detect.overlapping.events(
  daoh.event.dt,
  patient.id.col.name = "PRIM_HCU.IDencrypted",
  index.event.id.col.name = "index.event.id",
  admission.start.col.name = "EVSTDATE",
  admission.end.col.name = "EVENDATE",
  daoh.period.start.col.name = "daoh.period.start",
  daoh.period.end.col.name = "daoh.period.end",
  merge.event.id.col.name = "merge.event.id"
)

Arguments

daoh.event.dt	A data.table with patient identifier, index event identifier, and all admission found within the DAOH period of that index event, generated by prune.events.to.period occurred. Will be modified by reference to have a new column grouping overlapping sets of events.
patient.id.col.name	Character name of the patient identifier column (Default: 'PRIM_HCU.IDencrypted')
index.event.id.col.name	Character name of the index event identifier column (Default: 'index.event.id')
admission.start.col.name	Character name of the column containing admission start dates (Default: 'EVSTDATE')
admission.end.col.name	Character name of the column containing admission end dates (Default: 'EVENDATE')
daoh.period.start.col.name	Character name of the column that will be generated in index.op.dt to contain the start of each DAOH period (Default: 'daoh.period.start')
daoh.period.end.col.name	Character name of the column that will be generated in index.op.dt to contain the end of each DAOH period (Default: 'daoh.period.end')
merge.event.id.col.name	Character name of the column that will be populated with unique identifiers of overlapping events (Default: 'merge.event.id')

Value

The modified input daoh.event.dt data.table, with a new column with a unique identifier for each overlapping group of admissions (in column merge.event.id.col.name). The input will be modified by reference, so it's not strictly necessary to use the output.

mattmoo/daohtools documentation built on Feb. 5, 2023, 5:38 a.m.