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Summarise proportion Of patients covered

Source: R/summariseProportionOfPatientsCovered.R
summariseProportionOfPatientsCovered.Rd

Gives the proportion of patients still in observation who are in the cohort on any given day following their first cohort entry. This is known as the “proportion of patients covered” (PPC) method for assessing treatment persistence.

Usage

summariseProportionOfPatientsCovered(
  cohort,
  cohortId = NULL,
  strata = list(),
  followUpDays = NULL
)

Arguments

cohort

A cohort table

cohortId

Cohort definition ID of interest. If NUll, results for all cohorts will be returned.

strata

List of variables to stratify by.

followUpDays

Number of days to follow up individuals for. If NULL the maximum amount of days from an individuals first cohort start date to their last cohort end date will be used

Value

A summarised result