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Remove subjects in cohort that overlap with another cohort

Source: R/RemoveOverlappingSubjects.R
removeOverlappingSubjects.Rd

Remove subjects in cohort that overlap with another cohort. Given a Cohort A, check if the records of subjects in cohort A overlaps with records for the same subject in cohort B. If there is overlap then remove all records of that subject from Cohort A. Overlap is defined as b.cohort_end_date >= a.cohort_start_date AND b.cohort_start_date <= a.cohort_end_date. The overlap logic maybe offset by using a startDayOffSet (applied on cohort A's cohort_start_date) and endDayOffSet (applied on Cohort A's cohort_end_date). If while applying offset, the window becomes such that (a.cohort_start_date + startDayOffSet) > (a.cohort_end_date + endDayOffset) that record is ignored and thus deleted.

[Experimental]

Usage

removeOverlappingSubjects(
  connectionDetails = NULL,
  connection = NULL,
  cohortDatabaseSchema,
  cohortId,
  newCohortId,
  cohortsWithSubjectsToRemove,
  offsetCohortStartDate = -99999,
  offsetCohortEndDate = 99999,
  restrictSecondCohortStartBeforeFirstCohortStart = FALSE,
  restrictSecondCohortStartAfterFirstCohortStart = FALSE,
  cohortTable = "cohort",
  purgeConflicts = FALSE,
  tempEmulationSchema = getOption("sqlRenderTempEmulationSchema")
)

Arguments

connectionDetails

An object of type connectionDetails as created using the createConnectionDetails function in the DatabaseConnector package. Can be left NULL if connection is provided.

connection

An object of type connection as created using the connect function in the DatabaseConnector package. Can be left NULL if connectionDetails is provided, in which case a new connection will be opened at the start of the function, and closed when the function finishes.

cohortDatabaseSchema

Schema name where your cohort tables reside. Note that for SQL Server, this should include both the database and schema name, for example 'scratch.dbo'.

cohortId

The cohort id of the cohort whose subjects will be removed.

newCohortId

The cohort id of the output cohort.

cohortsWithSubjectsToRemove

An array of one or more cohorts with subjects to remove from given cohorts.

offsetCohortStartDate

(Default = 0) If you want to offset cohort start date, please provide a integer number.

offsetCohortEndDate

(Default = 0) If you want to offset cohort start date, please provide a integer number.

restrictSecondCohortStartBeforeFirstCohortStart

(Default = FALSE) If TRUE, then the secondCohort's cohort_start_date should be < firstCohort's cohort_start_date.

restrictSecondCohortStartAfterFirstCohortStart

(Default = FALSE) If TRUE, then the secondCohort's cohort_start_date should be > firstCohort's cohort_start_date.

cohortTable

The name of the cohort table.

purgeConflicts

If there are conflicts in the target cohort table i.e. the target cohort table already has records with newCohortId, do you want to purge and replace them with transformed. By default - it will not be replaced, and an error message is thrown.

tempEmulationSchema

Some database platforms like Oracle and Impala do not truly support temp tables. To emulate temp tables, provide a schema with write privileges where temp tables can be created.

Value

Nothing is returned