Create 4 non exclusive diagnostic categories

Pneumonia if one of:

• Standard of care diagnosis of CAP (radiologically or clinically)

• Empyema or abscess

• Admission chest X-ray shows pneumonia

Usage

derive_diagnosis_categories(df, v)

Arguments

df

the dataframe.

v

the value set. usually precomputed by the augment framework the value set can be explicitly supplied with v = get_value_sets(df)

Value

a dataframe

Details

NP-LRTI if:

• Not pneumonia and Standard of care LTRI diagnosis

Exacerbation of CRDE:

• Standard of care exacerbation COPD

• Standard of care exacerbation Non-COPD

• (N.B. may be pneumonia or NP-LRTI)

Heart failure:

• Standard of care congestive heart failure.