get_immunization_vaccine function

Construct Vaccine Name Associated to Immunizing Vaccine

This function is used in cases where several columns with vaccine dates and different names are provided by the user. It returns a column with the name of the vaccine used as immunizing. The parameters are set in agreement with get_immunization_date.

get_immunization_vaccine(
  data_set,
  immunization_date_col,
  vacc_date_col,
  vacc_name_col,
  immunization_delay
)

Arguments

• data_set: data.frame with cohort information.
• vacc_date_col: Name of the column(s) that contain the vaccine dates.
• vacc_name_col: Name of the column(s) that contain custom vaccine names for the vaccines (e.g. brand name, type of vaccine)
• immunization_delay: Characteristic time in days before the patient is considered immune.

Returns

Custom vaccine names of the immunizing vaccine.