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RE: st: creating an array with hospitalization days


From   "Maria Montez" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: creating an array with hospitalization days
Date   Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:40:18 -0500

Nick,

you are correct and I'm thinking in SAS but I'm trying really hard to switch
into STATA!

My problem is that I need to figure out which records correspond to
overlapping hospitalizations so that I can deal with them. I do not want to
program case by case because it seems to me that I might end up with lots of
mistakes. In trying to find a mechanical way of doing this I decided that I
could create an array with the days in the year and then add up the arrays
corresponding to each patient. At the end each patient will have an array
and if I have a day that as a value greater than 1 than I know that I have
potential overlaps. I realize this is not the best way.

Ideally I would want to be able to create a variable with day and time
together because then I could easily just compare discharge time in one
record is smaller or bigger than admission time in the next record. But I
couldn't find such function.

I really didn't want to bother you with all this but I just got stuck.

Thanks, Maria

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: creating an array with hospitalization days


You are right. 

begin(1)end 

doesn't qualify, by a long way, as a range acceptable 
to -forval-. Stata has to be able to work out, immediately, 
what number you mean by "begin" and what by "end".
Also, what goes in those positions _must_ be 
constants. They cannot be variables. 

A quite different issue is that I cannot 
see why you want these 365 extra variables, 
as they add no information to your data. 
What do you want to do with them? 

9 times out of 10 wanting to do this betrays 
a traveller from SAS land who wants to do 
something in a SAS-like way, but I would 
guess happily that you do not need these 
365 variables at all. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Maria Montez
 
> Here is the error message:
> 
> . forvalues i=begin(1)end {
>   2.         replace day`i'=1
>   3. }
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
> 
> I actually tabulated both begin and end and begin goes from 
> 1-364 and end
> goes from 1-365. I think I cannot use variables in defining 
> where the loop
> should start and end. I did a test by writing
> 
> forvalues i=begin(1)end {
> 	replace day5=1
> }
> 
> and I get the same error.

Eric G. Wruck
 
> What was the syntax error?  You may have gone past the 365th 
> element of your
> array if you have a discharge day sometime past 1-October-2001, or
> thereabouts.
 
> >Hi! I'm still on v8.
> >
> >I'm looking at one year of data for which one record 
> corresponds to one
> >hospitalization. I created variables day1-day365 to 
> represent all the days
> >in that year. Now, I would like those variables to be equal 
> to one during
> an
> >hospitalization. I have the admission day (admitday) and the 
> discharge day
> >(disday) and using these, I created two variables begin and 
> end that tell
> me
> >when did that hospitalization started and ended. Then I 
> though that I could
> >loop from begin to end and change the day array from 0 to 1. 
> However I'm
> >getting a syntax error and I think it comes from the begin and end
> variables
> >in the forvalues loop. Can anyone help me?
> >
> >sample code:
> >
> >forvalues i=1(1)365 {
> > 	gen day`i'=0
> >}
> >
> >gen begin=admitday-mdy(10,1,2000)+1
> >replace begin=1 if begin<=0
> >
> >gen end=disday-mdy(10,1,2000)+1
> >
> >forvalues i=begin(1)end {
> >	replace day`i'=1
> >}
> >
> >sample data:
> >
> >      
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> >       | study_id    admitday      disday   begin   end   
> day1   day2 |
> >       
> |--------------------------------------------------------------|
> >    1. |       19   03jan2001   24jan2001      95   116      
> 0      0 |
> >    2. |      362   24may2001   29may2001     236   241      
> 0      0 |
> >    3. |      396   01jun2001   07jun2001     244   250      
> 0      0 |
> >    4. |      436   21mar2001   22mar2001     172   173      
> 0      0 |
> >    5. |      438   17jan2001   25jan2001     109   117      
> 0      0 |
> >       
> |--------------------------------------------------------------|
> >    6. |      517   06mar2001   21mar2001     157   172      
> 0      0 |
> >    7. |      517   11sep2001   17sep2001     346   352      
> 0      0 |
> >    8. |      590   16sep2001   17sep2001     351   352      
> 0      0 |
> >    9. |      879   20dec2000   22dec2000      81    83      
> 0      0 |
> >       
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> 

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