Calculate median length of stay for a cohort of CMAM discharges

Usage

calculate_median_los(admission_date, discharge_date, group = NULL)

Arguments

admission_date: Date of admission in YYYY-MM-DD format. If child is a kwashiorkor case, date of lowest weight (when oedema has subsided). Can be a single date value or a vector of date values.
discharge_date: Date of discharge in YYYY-MM-DD format. Can be a single date value or a vector of date values.
group: A character value/s with the same length as admission_date and discharge_data to use as grouping variable within which median length-of-stay is to be calculated. Default is NULL for no grouping.

Value

A numeric value for median length-of-stay in days. If group is not NULL, a vector of numeric values for median length-of-stay in days with length equal to the number of groups.

Author

Ernest Guevarra

Examples

calculate_median_los(
  otp_beneficiaries$admDate,
  otp_beneficiaries$disDate,
  group = otp_beneficiaries$locality
)
#> Warning: Some admission date/s are not in YYYY-MM-DD format or are not available. Returning NA.
#> Warning: Some discharge dates are earlier than admisison dates. Returning NA.
#>             group  los
#> 1        Alkamlin 52.0
#> 2          Atbara 50.0
#> 3       El Fasher 63.0
#> 4           Halfa 21.0
#> 5       Kalamendo 35.0
#> 6         Kassala 63.0
#> 7           Kutum 58.0
#> 8  Medani Alkupra 36.0
#> 9  Sharg Algazira 28.0
#> 10   South Gazira 26.0
#> 11         Tawila 28.5
#> 12         Telkuk 42.0