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

Usage

addDeathFlag(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = c(0, Inf),
  deathFlagName = "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.

deathFlagName

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{
library(PatientProfiles)

cdm <- mockPatientProfiles(source = "duckdb")

cdm$cohort1 |>
  addDeathFlag()
#> # Source:   table<og_104_1757798533> [?? x 5]
#> # Database: DuckDB 1.3.3-dev231 [unknown@Linux 6.11.0-1018-azure:R 4.5.1/:memory:]
#>    cohort_definition_id subject_id cohort_start_date cohort_end_date death
#>                   <int>      <int> <date>            <date>          <dbl>
#>  1                    1          9 1939-11-03        1950-08-15          0
#>  2                    1         10 1947-12-06        1954-02-26          0
#>  3                    2          7 1935-10-29        1935-11-30          0
#>  4                    3          2 1956-02-04        1963-04-15          0
#>  5                    1          1 1907-07-05        1914-12-28          0
#>  6                    1          3 1952-06-04        1954-05-28          0
#>  7                    2          5 1943-09-22        1961-09-23          0
#>  8                    2          4 1955-03-20        1969-03-16          0
#>  9                    1          6 1940-06-03        1944-02-09          0
#> 10                    2          8 1929-09-16        1930-05-11          0

# }