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Add days to death for individuals. Only death within the same observation period than `indexDate` will be observed.

Usage

addDeathDays(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = c(0, Inf),
  deathDaysName = "days_to_death",
  name = NULL
)

Arguments

x

Table with individuals in the cdm.

indexDate

Variable in x that contains the window origin.

censorDate

Name of a column to stop followup.

window

window to consider events over.

deathDaysName

name of the new column to be added.

name

Name of the new table, if NULL a temporary table is returned.

Value

table x with the added column with death information added.

Examples

# \donttest{
cdm <- mockPatientProfiles()

cdm$cohort1 |>
  addDeathDays()
#> # Source:   table<og_099_1751196073> [?? x 5]
#> # Database: DuckDB v1.3.1 [unknown@Linux 6.11.0-1015-azure:R 4.5.1/:memory:]
#>    cohort_definition_id subject_id cohort_start_date cohort_end_date
#>                   <int>      <int> <date>            <date>         
#>  1                    1          5 1971-10-31        1984-10-02     
#>  2                    1          6 1993-02-18        1994-05-24     
#>  3                    1          7 1992-03-08        1997-10-05     
#>  4                    3         10 1952-08-12        1955-11-26     
#>  5                    1          9 1965-07-21        1966-11-18     
#>  6                    2          8 1910-10-08        1927-04-22     
#>  7                    3          4 1951-08-01        1955-01-19     
#>  8                    2          1 1935-02-23        1937-10-23     
#>  9                    3          3 1924-08-03        1934-08-09     
#> 10                    2          2 1966-01-07        1966-12-08     
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: days_to_death <dbl>

mockDisconnect(cdm = cdm)
# }