read_hesin_data: Read Hospital Inpatient Data

In niekverw/ukbpheno: Extraction and processing UK Biobank data to generate health outcome phenotypes

Read Hospital Inpatient Data

Description

This function reads the record-level HospitalEpisodeStatistics (HES) data organized in several data tables

Usage

read_hesin_data(fhesin, fhesin_diag, fhesin_oper, add_extra_hesin_columns = F)

Arguments

fhesin	Path to HESIN (master file)
fhesin_diag	Path to HESIN_DIAG file containing diagnosis codes
fhesin_oper	Path to HESIN_OPER file containing Operations and procedural codes
add_extra_hesin_columns	if True, adds extra columns "ins_index","source"

Value

list of data.table objects with all episodes

Examples

read_hesin_data("hesin.txt" ,"hesin_diag.txt" ,"hesin_oper.txt" )

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