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

Usage

addDeathFlag(
  x,
  indexDate = "cohort_start_date",
  censorDate = NULL,
  window = c(0, Inf),
  deathFlagName = "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.
deathFlagName: 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 |>
  addDeathFlag()
#> # Source:   table<og_114_1734615511> [?? x 5]
#> # Database: DuckDB v1.1.3 [unknown@Linux 6.8.0-1017-azure:R 4.4.2/:memory:]
#>    cohort_definition_id subject_id cohort_start_date cohort_end_date death
#>                   <int>      <int> <date>            <date>          <dbl>
#>  1                    3          4 1971-09-27        1990-08-29          0
#>  2                    1         10 1975-10-13        1977-01-16          0
#>  3                    3          8 1939-02-13        1943-09-07          0
#>  4                    2          1 1957-08-08        1963-03-21          0
#>  5                    2          3 1920-07-08        1921-08-01          0
#>  6                    3          6 1933-03-17        1933-04-28          0
#>  7                    1          7 2016-11-07        2023-10-18          0
#>  8                    1          9 1991-03-27        2001-08-04          0
#>  9                    2          2 1981-11-18        1995-08-28          0
#> 10                    2          5 1983-05-05        1984-10-21          0

mockDisconnect(cdm = cdm)
# }