An S4 class to represent episodes of antimicrobial therapy

An S4 class to represent episodes of antimicrobial therapy

TherapyEpisode(...)

TherapyEpisode.DBIConnection(conn, id, extend_table_start = NULL)

TherapyEpisode.MedicationRequest(x, extend_table_start = NULL)

Arguments

...

generic signature

conn

a database connection

id

a vector of one or several therapy episode identifiers (from database field drug_therapy_episodes.therapy_id as generated by load_medications() or create_therapy_episodes())

extend_table_start

optional integer to specify an earlier start (in hours) in the longitudinal table of the object. For example, a value of 6 means the longitudinal table will begin 6 hours prior to the start of antimicrobial therapy. The value must be a positive number. Decimal numbers will be rounded up to the nearest integer. The default is NULL.

x

an object of class MedicationRequest

Slots

id

a therapy episode identifier

conn

a database connection

record

a tbl_sql for the corresponding database record

longitudinal_table

a tbl_sql for the longitudinal therapy table