HospitalNetwork (version 0.9.4)

all_admissions_summary: Summary statistics on entire database

Description

Function that extracts summary statistics from entire database

Usage

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

Value

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

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

Examples

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