medExtractR-package {medExtractR}

Medication Extraction With R

Description

Provides a function medExtractR for extracting dose attributes for medications within a given electronic health record (EHR) note.

Author(s)

Hannah Weeks [e-mail],
Cole Beck [e-mail],
Leena Choi [e-mail]

Maintainer: Leena Choi [e-mail]

Examples

note1 <- "Progrf Oral Capsule 1 mg 3 capsules by mouth twice a day - last
dose at 10pm"
note2 <- "Currently on lamotrigine 150-200, but will increase to lamotrigine 200mg bid"
medExtractR(note1, c("prograf", "tacrolimus"), 60, "mg", 2, lastdose=TRUE)
medExtractR(note2, c("lamotrigine", "ltg"), 130, "mg", 1, strength_sep = "-")