addDeathDate {PatientProfiles}

Add date of death for individuals. Only death within the same observation period than 'indexDate' will be observed.

Description

Add date of death for individuals. Only death within the same observation period than 'indexDate' will be observed.

Usage

addDeathDate(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = c(0, Inf),
  deathDateName = "date_of_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.

deathDateName

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

cdm <- mockPatientProfiles()
cdm$cohort1 %>%
  addDeathDate()
mockDisconnect(cdm = cdm)