Re: st: Need Help regarding sorting

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

bysort patientname (date) : gen second = type == "DS" & type[_n-1] == "DS"

Nick

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Michael Stewart
<michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a  health care  database and  am trying to weed out duplicates
>
> My data  is as follows
>
> Patientname   date_of_event type
> xxxx   1/1/2010   HP
> xxxx   1/2//2010 DS
> xxxx   1/3/2010 DS
> xxxx  1/5/2010  HP
> xxxx  1/6//2010  DS
> yyyy   1/4/2011  HP
> yyyy  1/5/2011 DS
>
> Here in this dataset DS refers to discharge summary and HP refers to
> history and physical
>
> I am specifically trying to find out for each patient: if  two DS are
> separated by a HP
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