findBaselineHospitalStay: Finds the length of a hospital stay at the baseline block

In smm52/timeBlocks: Converts Serial Measurement Data into Longitudinal Trajectory of Equally-sized Time Blocks

Finds the length of a hospital stay at the baseline block

Description

Finds the length of hospital stays around baseline

Usage

findBaselineHospitalStay(
  serialDf,
  baselineDates = baselineInfo,
  blDayDiff = blDayDiff,
  idColumn = "PATIENT",
  startDateColumn = "VISIT_START",
  endDateColumn = "VISIT_END",
  blDateColumn = "VISIT",
  countNights = TRUE
)

Arguments

idColumn	name of ID column: default is PATIENT
startDateColumn	name of date column: default is VISIT_START. This column has to be of class Date
endDateColumn	name of date column: default is VISIT_END. This column has to be of class Date
countNights	whether to count nights or days in hopsital (if night, than an outpatient stay has length 0, otherwise 1)
df	the data frame to check
dayDiff	time around baseline (default: 90 days, will look three months before and after baseline)

Value

data frame with baseline measure or NA if no measurement was close to baseline

smm52/timeBlocks documentation built on Nov. 27, 2022, 3:54 a.m.