topic Re: Total length of stay with conditions in SAS Programming

Total length of stay with conditions

Doyinsola — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:23:22 GMT

I have the following data:

Data sample;
	input id $ (entry) (:mmddyy10.) (discharge) (:mmddyy10.) event $ 10.;
	format entry discharge date9.;
	If discharge lt "30sep2015"d then los=discharge-entry;
	Else los="30sep2015"d-entry;
	datalines;
1 12/05/2014 12/17/2014 discharge2
1 12/24/2014 01/17/2015 discharge2
1 02/06/2015 03/10/2015 discharge1

2 08/01/2013 08/16/2013 discharge1
2 10/24/2013 11/06/2013 discharge1

3 02/10/2015 05/10/2015 discharge1
3 09/10/2015 10/18/2015 discharge2

4 09/23/2013 10/22/2013 discharge2
4 10/30/2013 07/15/2014 discharge2
4 07/25/2014 08/14/2014 death

5 08/01/2015 08/16/2015 discharge2
5 09/01/2015 11/06/2015 discharge1

6 11/05/2013 09/05/2014 discharge2
6 09/15/2014 07/08/2015 discharge2
6 07/14/2015 07/16/2015 discharge2
;
Run;

Each row represents a period of stay that starts with an entry date and a discharge date. The "los" variable represents the length of stay (i.e. the number of days from entry to discharge). The "event" variable describes the type of discharge (discharge1=return not anticipated, discharge2=return anticipated, death).

I would like to find the cumulative length of stay (los) by id, where counting stops if the event is discharge1 or death, whichever comes first, or the last of a series of discharge2 dates. So the dataset starts to look like this:

And ultimately, this is the dataset I am hoping to end up with:

Re: Total length of stay with conditions

JOL — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:19:58 GMT

You may need to modify the final subsetting IF.

data sample1;
set sample;
by id discharge;

if first.id then
cum_los = 0;
cum_los + los;

if event = "discharge1" or event = "death" or discharge = "20sep2015"d;
run;

Re: Total length of stay with conditions

tarheel13 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:39:49 GMT

@Doyinsola What are you doing with ID 2? Is the desired output supposed to be 1 row per ID? I ran @JOL's code but it gets 2 rows for ID 2 as that ID has 2 rows for discharge1. What is your requirement? Do you want to keep the 15 or the 13 for that ID or combine them to 28?

Re: Total length of stay with conditions

Doyinsola — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:00:31 GMT

Yes, the desired output should be one row per ID. For ID 2 I would like to keep only the first one (15). I also ran @JOL's code, but it eliminates all rows of ID 6 and does not account for the the fact that ID 5 has some days stayed after 30th September 2015. ID 5 should have a final LOS of 29 instead of 81.

Thank you

Re: Total length of stay with conditions

Doyinsola — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 03:55:35 GMT

Data sample1;
   Set sample;
   By id;

   If first.id then rn = 1; 
   Else rn + 1;
Run;

Proc SQL;
	Create table sample2 as
	Select ID, Entry, Discharge, Event, los, rn,
		Case 
			When Event = 'discharge1' then 'Stop'
        	When Event = 'death' then 'Stop'
        	When Discharge >=  "30sep2015"d then 'Stop'
        	Else '.' 
    	End as Include         
		From sample1;
Quit;

Proc SQL;
      Create table sample3 as
      Select ID, rn    
      From sample2
      Where Include = 'Stop';
Quit;

Proc SQL;
     Create table sample4 as
     Select sample2.ID, sum(sample2.los) as cum_los
     From sample2
     Left join sample3 on sample2.ID = sample3.ID
     Where sample2.rn <= sample3.rn or sample3.ID is null
     Group by sample2.ID;
Quit;