getContacts: Get contact tracing list and plot.

In vnsny-bia/VisitContactTrace: A contact tracing application built to consume healthcare encounter data

Description

To get primary, secondary & tertiary contact list from data for specific staff/patient id.

Usage

getContacts(staff_id = NA, patient_id = NA,
  reference_date = "2020-03-01", look_forward_days = 7,
  look_back_days = 0, plot = F, data = NULL)

Arguments

staff_id	character - unique staff identifier for each staff in the homecare dataset
patient_id	character - unique patient identifier for each patient in the homecare dataset
reference_date	character - The date user assume that staff/patient started showing onset symptoms. ('2020-03-01')
look_forward_days	character - How many days forward you want to look from reference date ('7')
look_back_days	character - How many days backward you want to look from reference date ('0')
plot	logical - If TRUE then plot object will be added in the output list. (FALSE)
data	data.table - Data with following columns: PATIENT_ID, PATIENT_NAME (required), VISIT_DATE (required), STAFF_ID, STAFF_NAME (required), PATIENT_STATUS, STAFF_STATUS

Value

returns a list with 4 elements:

• primary_contact_list - The primary contact data frame.

• secondary_contact_list - The primary contact data frame.

• tertiary_contact_list - The tertiary contact data frame.

• plot - A plot object, if logical parameter in the function is TRUE.

The second example below generates plot.

Examples

# Below example is used to get contact tracing lists based on staff id.
            
getContacts(staff_id= '1',
             patient_id = NA,
             reference_date = "2020-03-01",
             look_forward_days = 20,
             look_back_days = 3,
             data= hcvisits,
             plot=FALSE)
             
# Below example is used to get contact tracing lists based on patient id. 
           
 getContacts(staff_id= NA,
             patient_id = '1000',
             reference_date = "2020-03-01",
             look_forward_days = 50,
             look_back_days = 3,
             data= hcvisits,
             plot=TRUE)     

vnsny-bia/VisitContactTrace documentation built on July 30, 2020, 10:19 p.m.