rEHR

David A. Springate 2014, 2015

R tools for processing and extracting clinical information from Electronic Medical Records

This in development package provides tools for accelerating and automating the most common operations researchers perform to extract and analyse data from Electronic Medical Records Databases.

The package is currently only tested with CPRD data, but it should be possible to configure it with other EHR data. See the ehr_system code for details of how the interface with CPRD is implemented. See the vignette for more details.

The package was originally called rCPRD. It is not yet on CRAN but you can install from github using devtools:

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("rEHR", "rOpenHealth")
require(rEHR)

See the vignette for full usage details.

Clinical code list construction functions have been absorbed from the rpcdsearch package. See the Codelist construction vignette for more details.

Issues can be reported here.