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Determine if an admission is due to an infective cause

Source: R/augment-avoncap.R
derive_infective_classification.Rd

Infective admissions are defined as any of:

  • pneumonias

  • NP-LRTI

  • laboratory confirmed COVID diagnosis

  • admission swab COVID positive

Usage

derive_infective_classification(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

Infective admissions are excluded if:

  • Standard of care states non-infectious process

  • SOC non-LRTI (and none of the other categories above)

Any unknowns are defined as non-Infective