teamcode_to_number: Converts team codes into numbers

In md0u80c9/SSNAPInterface: Stroke Sentinel National Audit Project (SSNAP) Data Interface

Description

Each team in SSNAP has its own TeamCode, which is a string used to refer to all records associated with that team.

Usage

teamcode_to_number(x)

Arguments

x	A character vector of team codes.

Details

Acute teams are represented by a 3-digit number. Community teams are represented by C followed by a 3-digit number. Fake teams have number values over 900 (C900 for fake community teams).

It is much quicker to evaluate team codes if we treat C teams as 'negative' and inpatient teams as 'positive' numbers - checking for a community team simply means looking for values less than 0.

At present we simply substitute C for - and convert the result to an integer; although in the future we may need to do more complex mapping so you should use this function rather than doing the conversion yourself.

This is mainly for internal use as part of the data onboarding process; however there may be circumstances where you need to do the same conversion outside of SSNAPInterface.

Value

A numeric vector of team numbers.

md0u80c9/SSNAPInterface documentation built on Nov. 10, 2019, 12:08 a.m.