pccc-package {pccc}

pccc: Pediatric Complex Chronic Conditions

Description

An implementation of the pediatric complex chronic conditions (CCC) classification system. Implemented for the International Classification of Disease (ICD) 9th and 10th revisions.

Reference Material

The original paper, Feudtner C, et al. (2014), was publish with open access. For ease, a copy of the paper is included in this package. See the examples below for instructions on opening this pdf from within R or outside of R. You can view the publication online at http://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2431-14-199.

Feudtner et. al. provided a SAS macro and STATA program to implement the CCC. These files are also provided for reference. See the Examples for instructions on opening these files.

Lastly, the appendix tables in the file Categories_of_CCCv2_and_Corresponding_ICD.docx have also been included with this package.

References

Feudtner C, et al. Pediatric complex chronic conditions classification system version 2: updated for ICD-10 and complex medical technology dependence and transplantation, BMC Pediatrics, 2014, 14:199, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-199

Examples

## Not run: 
# To open the Feudtner et.al. pdf from within R use the following
if (!is.null(getOption("pdfviewer"))) {
  system(paste0(getOption("pdfviewer"), " ",
                file.path(system.file("pccc_references", package = "pccc")), "/",
                "Feudtner_etal_2014.pdf"))
}

# If the pdf cannot be opened, you should be able to open it manually by
# navagating to
file.path(system.file("pccc_references", package = "pccc"))

# To view the original SAS program
file.show(system.file("pccc_references", "ccc_version2_sas.sas", package = "pccc"))

# To view the original STATA program
file.show(system.file("pccc_references", "ccc.do", package = "pccc"))

## End(Not run)