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Re: st: Question re analysing icd10 code data


From   Svend Juul <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Question re analysing icd10 code data
Date   Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:01:39 +0200

Katrina wrote:
 
The dataset contains 44 fields for icd10 (hospital) codes. 
There are many hundreds of codes, and these can be put in 
any one of the columns. For example, I am interested in the 
alcohol codes, of which there are 17. The codes are in string 
form. The alcohol codes are for example Y90, Y90.0, Y90.1, 
Y91, Y91.0 etc etc in 17 different forms.
 
What I want to do is find every time any one of the 17 different 
alcohol codes appears in any one of the 44 columns.
I tried this:
 
gen alcohol=.
foreach v of varlist varname1 - varname44 {
replace alcohol=1 if (`v'==Y90|`v'==Y90.1|`v'==Y90.2| until `v'==Y91.9)
}
 
but it didn't work, I suspect maybe because the data is in 
string form.
 
Basically is there any way of doing a Boolean type search 
using Stata to answer the question:
For any column icd1-icd44 find/count where the variable == 
Y90* | Y91*
 
=============================================================
 
With a string variable, you must put the values in quotes:
 
   ... `v'=="Y90"
 
A bit against intuition: You can use > and < in relational string
expressions, so you can: 
 
   generate alcohol=0
   foreach V of varlist dx1-dx44 {
      replace alcohol=1 if `V' >= "Y90" & `V' < "Y92"
   }
 
Another technique:
 
      replace alcohol=1 if strpos(`V',"Y90")>0 | strpos(`V',"Y91")>0
 
The techniques are desribed in S Juul: An Introduction to Stata for
Health Researchers (Stata Press), section 5.6.
 
Hope this helps
Svend

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