definition_search: This function is used to build new definition lists based on...
In rOpenHealth/rEHR: Manipulating and Analysing Electronic Health Record Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

This function is used to build new definition lists based on medical definitions

1 2	definition_search(def, medical_table = NULL, test_table = NULL, drug_table = NULL, lookup = NULL)

`def`	an object of class MedicalDefinition
`medical_table`	Dataframe lookup table of clinical codes
`test_table`	dataframe lookup table of test codes
`drug_table`	dataframe lookup table of medication product codes
`lookup`	list containing elements: "codes", "terms", "tests", "drugs", "drugcodes" (see details)

You may get an invalid multibyte string error, in which case, set fileEncoding="latin1" on read.delim when reading in the lookup tables Lookup tables are

## Not run: 
medical_table <- read.delim("medical.txt", fileEncoding="latin1", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
drug_table <- read.delim("product.txt", fileEncoding="latin1", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
def2 <- import_definition_lists(system.file("extdata", "example_search.csv",
                                            package = "rpcdsearch"))
draft_lists <- definition_search(def2, medical_table, drug_table = drug_table)

## End(Not run)