all_admissions_summary function

Summary statistics on entire database

Function that extracts summary statistics from entire database

all_admissions_summary(base, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

• base: (data.table). A subject discharge database, in the form of a data.table. The data.table should have at least the following columns: sID: subjectID (character) fID: facilityID (character) Adate: admission date (date) Ddate: discharge date (date)
• verbose: (boolean) print diagnostic messages. Default is TRUE.
• ...: other parameters passed on to internal functions

Returns

a list of summary statistics: - meanLOS: The mean length of stay, in days - meanTBA: The mean time between admissions, in days - totalAdmissions: Total number of admissions (i.e. number of records in the database) - numSubjects: Number of unique subjects - numFacilities: Number of unique facilities - LOSdistribution: Distribution of length of stay - TBAdistribution: Distribution of time between admissions

Examples

mydb <- create_fake_subjectDB(n_subjects = 100, n_facilities = 10)
myBase <- checkBase(mydb)
all_admissions_summary(myBase)