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Add date of death for individuals. Only death within the same observation period than `indexDate` will be observed.

Usage

addDeathDate(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = c(0, Inf),
  deathDateName = "date_of_death",
  name = NULL
)

Arguments

x

Table with individuals in the cdm.

indexDate

Variable in x that contains the window origin.

censorDate

Name of a column to stop followup.

window

window to consider events over.

deathDateName

name of the new column to be added.

name

Name of the new table, if NULL a temporary table is returned.

Value

table x with the added column with death information added.

Examples

# \donttest{
cdm <- mockPatientProfiles()
cdm$cohort1 %>%
  addDeathDate()
#> # Source:   table<og_096_1730219842> [10 x 5]
#> # Database: DuckDB v1.1.1 [unknown@Linux 6.5.0-1025-azure:R 4.4.1/:memory:]
#>    cohort_definition_id subject_id cohort_start_date cohort_end_date
#>                   <int>      <int> <date>            <date>         
#>  1                    3          5 1983-08-14        1985-03-14     
#>  2                    2         10 1932-03-19        1937-06-18     
#>  3                    3          6 1982-10-28        1984-11-23     
#>  4                    3          1 1970-09-08        1973-10-24     
#>  5                    2          9 1964-12-08        1965-01-03     
#>  6                    1          8 1973-11-18        1986-04-14     
#>  7                    2          2 1971-11-12        1986-09-18     
#>  8                    2          4 1982-09-22        1982-10-23     
#>  9                    1          3 1949-03-02        1950-06-16     
#> 10                    2          7 1961-07-25        1987-09-14     
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: date_of_death <date>
mockDisconnect(cdm = cdm)
# }