PPS {BHAI}

Create a PPS object

Description

This function creates a PPS object.

Usage

PPS(num_hai_patients = NULL, num_survey_patients = NULL,
  length_of_stay = NULL, loi_pps = NULL, hospital_discharges = NULL,
  num_hai_patients_by_stratum = NULL,
  num_hai_patients_by_stratum_prior = NULL, mccabe_scores_distr = NULL,
  mccabe_by_stratum_prior = NULL, mccabe_life_exp = NULL,
  num_survey_patients_by_stratum = NULL, population = NULL,
  country = "")

Arguments

num_hai_patients

Named numeric containing patients having healthcare-associated infections.

num_survey_patients

Number of patients in point prevalence survey.

length_of_stay

Length of stay of all patients in hospitals. This is need for the prevalence to incidence conversion with the Rhame-Sudderth formula.

loi_pps

A list containing length of infections from all patients in the PPS. The length of infection of all healthcare-associated infections. In PPS this is usually approximated as the time from infection onset until the date of the survey.

hospital_discharges

The number of hospital discharges.

num_hai_patients_by_stratum

A list containing for each infection the number of patients in each age and gender stratum.

num_hai_patients_by_stratum_prior

The prior weight (counts) for each infection, age and gender stratum. This is used for smooting the age and gender distribution when small numbers are observed.

mccabe_scores_distr

The observed McCabe scores (counts) for each infection, age and gender stratum from the PPS.

mccabe_by_stratum_prior

The prior weight (counts) for each infection, McCabe score, age and gender stratum. This is used for smooting the age and gender distribution when small numbers are observed.

mccabe_life_exp

Named list containing remaining life expectancies for each McCabe score (NONFATAL, ULTFATAL, RAPFATAL).

num_survey_patients_by_stratum

Number of survey patients stratified by infection, age and gender. If this parameter is provided the methodology described in Cassini et al. (2016) <doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002150> is applied.

population

Population size.

country

Name of the country.

Value

A PPS class object.

See Also

PPS

Examples

data(german_pps_2011_repr)
german_pps_repr = PPS(num_hai_patients = num_hai_patients,
    num_hai_patients_by_stratum = num_hai_patients_by_stratum,
    num_hai_patients_by_stratum_prior = num_hai_patients_by_stratum_prior,
    num_survey_patients = num_survey_patients,
    length_of_stay = length_of_stay,
    loi_pps = loi_pps,
    mccabe_scores_distr = mccabe_scores_distr,
    mccabe_life_exp = mccabe_life_exp,
    hospital_discharges = hospital_discharges,
    population = population,
    country="Germany (representative sample)")
german_pps_repr