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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"
)

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.

Value

table x with the added column with death information added.

Examples

# \donttest{
cdm <- mockPatientProfiles()
cdm$cohort1 %>%
  addDeathFlag()
#> # Source:   table<og_110_1715898452> [10 x 5]
#> # Database: DuckDB v0.10.2 [unknown@Linux 6.5.0-1021-azure:R 4.4.0/:memory:]
#>    cohort_definition_id subject_id cohort_start_date cohort_end_date death
#>                   <int>      <int> <date>            <date>          <dbl>
#>  1                    2          8 2017-03-14        2034-12-11          0
#>  2                    3          7 2081-02-23        2109-08-27          0
#>  3                    2          6 1932-06-27        1964-08-29          0
#>  4                    3          1 2035-12-16        2060-03-10          0
#>  5                    3         10 2071-05-06        2167-02-05          0
#>  6                    1          4 1969-02-24        1969-07-21          0
#>  7                    1          2 2033-12-19        2063-05-27          0
#>  8                    2          5 1948-08-01        1973-08-25          0
#>  9                    1          9 2014-11-07        2071-04-23          0
#> 10                    2          3 1982-12-26        2093-01-28          0
mockDisconnect(cdm = cdm)
# }