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    <h1>Create HospiNet object from patient database</h1>
    
    <div class="hidden name"><code>hospinet_from_patient_database.Rd</code></div>
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    <p>This function creates a HospiNet object from the database containing patients stays.</p>
    
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    <pre class="usage"><span class='fu'>hospinet_from_patient_database</span>(<span class='no'>base</span>, <span class='kw'>patientID</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"pID"</span>,
  <span class='kw'>hospitalID</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"hID"</span>, <span class='kw'>admDate</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"Adate"</span>, <span class='kw'>disDate</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"Ddate"</span>,
  <span class='kw'>noloops</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>, <span class='kw'>window_threshold</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>365</span>, <span class='kw'>nmoves_threshold</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='kw'>NULL</span>,
  <span class='kw'>verbose</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>)</pre>
    
    <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="arguments"><a class="anchor" href="#arguments"></a>Arguments</h2>
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    <colgroup><col class="name" /><col class="desc" /></colgroup>
    <tr>
      <th>base</th>
      <td><p>(data.table).
A patient discharge database, in the form of a data.table. The data.table should have at least the following columns:</p><ul>
<li><p>patientID (character)</p></li>
<li><p>hospitalID (character)</p></li>
<li><p>admDate (date)</p></li>
<li><p>disDate (date)</p></li>
</ul></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>patientID, hospitalID, admDate, disDate</th>
      <td><p>(character)
Change the default names of the base columns.</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>noloops</th>
      <td><p>(boolean).
Should transfers within the same nodes (loops) be kept or set to 0. Defaults to TRUE, removing loops (setting matrix diagonal to 0).</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>window_threshold</th>
      <td><p>(numeric)
A threshold for the number of days between discharge and admission to be counted as a transfer. Set to 0 for same day transfer, default is 365 days.</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>nmoves_threshold</th>
      <td><p>(numeric)
A threshold for the minimum number of patient transfer between two hospitals. Set to NULL to deactivate, default to NULL.</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>verbose</th>
      <td><p>TRUE to print computation steps</p></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    
    <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="value"><a class="anchor" href="#value"></a>Value</h2>

    <p>The function returns a HospiNet object.</p>
    
    <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="see-also"><a class="anchor" href="#see-also"></a>See also</h2>

    <div class='dont-index'><p><code><a href='HospiNet.html'>HospiNet</a></code></p></div>
    

    <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="examples"><a class="anchor" href="#examples"></a>Examples</h2>
    <pre class="examples"><div class='input'><span class='no'>mydb</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='create_fake_patientDB.html'>create_fake_patientDB</a></span>(<span class='kw'>n_patients</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>100</span>, <span class='kw'>n_hospital</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>5</span>)
<span class='no'>mat</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fu'>hospinet_from_patient_database</span>(<span class='kw'>base</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='no'>mydb</span>)
<span class='no'>mat</span></div><div class='output co'>#&gt; $matrix
#&gt;    h1 h2 h3 h4 h5
#&gt; h1  0  5  3  5  6
#&gt; h2  8  0  7  9  9
#&gt; h3  3  6  0  9  7
#&gt; h4  6 13  6  0  8
#&gt; h5 10  5  6  4  0
#&gt; 
#&gt; $edgelist
#&gt;     origin target  N
#&gt;  1:     h1     h2  5
#&gt;  2:     h1     h3  3
#&gt;  3:     h1     h4  5
#&gt;  4:     h1     h5  6
#&gt;  5:     h2     h1  8
#&gt;  6:     h2     h3  7
#&gt;  7:     h2     h4  9
#&gt;  8:     h2     h5  9
#&gt;  9:     h3     h1  3
#&gt; 10:     h3     h2  6
#&gt; 11:     h3     h4  9
#&gt; 12:     h3     h5  7
#&gt; 13:     h4     h1  6
#&gt; 14:     h4     h2 13
#&gt; 15:     h4     h3  6
#&gt; 16:     h4     h5  8
#&gt; 17:     h5     h1 10
#&gt; 18:     h5     h2  5
#&gt; 19:     h5     h3  6
#&gt; 20:     h5     h4  4
#&gt; 
#&gt; $n_hospitals
#&gt; [1] 5
#&gt; 
#&gt; $n_movements
#&gt; [1] 135
#&gt; 
#&gt; $window_threshold
#&gt; [1] 365
#&gt; 
#&gt; $nmoves_threshold
#&gt; NULL
#&gt; 
#&gt; $noloops
#&gt; [1] TRUE
#&gt; 
#&gt; attr(,"class")
#&gt; [1] "HospiNet"</div><div class='input'>
</div></pre>
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