get_hospital_attribute {hospitals}

Get hospital attribute

Description

get_hospital_attribute retrieves one of the variables of hospitals as indicated in x. Hospitals in x can be specified by the: (i) hospital identifier, (ii) acronym, or the (iii) shortened or (iv) full version of the hospital name.

Usage

get_hospital_attribute(x, key = "hospital_id", value = "hospital_short_name")

Arguments

x

A character vector of values that refer to hospitals, can be either the hospital identifier (e.g. "h0003"), its acronym (e.g. "HB"), the shortened name ("H de Braga") or the full name ("Hospital de Braga, EPE"). Indicate how x should be interpreted with the parameter key.

key

A string indicating the type of values in x: "hospital_id", "hospital_acronym", "hospital_short_name" or "hospital_full_name".

value

A string indicating the hospital attribute to be returned, can be any of the columns of hospitals.

Value

A character vector of hospital attributes.

Examples

# Get the short name of a hospital
# (same as get_hospital_attribute('h0001', value = 'hospital_short_name'))
get_hospital_attribute('h0001')

# Or get instead the full name
get_hospital_attribute('h0001', value = 'hospital_full_name')

# Map the hospital short name to its full name
get_hospital_attribute('IPO de Lisboa', key = 'hospital_short_name', value = 'hospital_full_name')