Open ireneangelucci opened 6 months ago
For this particular case, I think what you say makes sense, but I would work through some additional patients from the same hospital_id and test your assumptions, particularly if this is a important feature of your work.
For data like this, it will be difficult to assess when the infusion 'ends', and the only suggestion I can give is to try to incorporate some clinical knowledge (typical drugamounts, assessment intervals, etc) if you haven't already.
I am working with the infusionDrug.csv table and I noticed that for many entries the
drugamount
is missing, as in the case below:In such a case, is there a way I can know if Heparin was administered continuously from
infusiondrugoffset
= 32 toinfusiondrugoffset
= 2363?I know that if the
drugamount
was also present I could consider the administration to be continuous up to the point whendrugrate
* length of time is equal to thedrugamount
, but in this case how can I know?I am asking this because I would like to sample the data with a 5 minute time step, therefore I would like to know if, for example, between
infusiondrugoffset
= 893 andinfusiondrugoffset
= 953 thedrugrate
should also be 1300. Thank you.