Prepares for the running the PatientLevelPrediction package — prepareForPlpData • RiskStratifiedEstimation

Prepares for running the PatientLevelPrediction package by merging the treatment and comparator cohorts and defining a new covariate for treatment.

Usage

prepareForPlpData(
  treatmentCohortId,
  comparatorCohortId,
  targetCohortId,
  cohortDatabaseSchema,
  cohortTable,
  resultsDatabaseSchema,
  mergedCohortTable,
  connectionDetails
)

Arguments

treatmentCohortId: The treatment cohort id
comparatorCohortId: The comparator cohort id
targetCohortId: The id of the merged cohorts
cohortDatabaseSchema: The name of the database schema that is the location where the cohort data used to define the at risk cohort is available
cohortTable: The table that contains the treatment and comparator cohorts.
resultsDatabaseSchema: The name of the database schema to store the new tables. Need to have write access.
mergedCohortTable: The table that will contain the computeIncidenceAnalysis
connectionDetails: The connection details required to connect to adatabase.

Value

Creates the tables resultsDatabaseSchema.mergedCohortTable, resultsDatabaseSchema.attributeDefinitionTable and resultsDatabaseSchema.cohortAttributeTable