clean_physician_id {naaccr}R Documentation

Clean physician identification numbers

Description

Clean physician identification numbers

Usage

clean_physician_id(physician, keep_unknown = FALSE)

Arguments

physician

A character vector of medical license number or facility-generated codes.

keep_unknown

Replace values for "unknown" with NA?

Value

A character vector with leading and trailing whitespace removed. If keep_unknown is FALSE, blanks and values representing unknown physicians or non-applicable are replaced with NA.


[Package naaccr version 2.0.2 Index]