topic Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date? in SAS Programming

How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

Student77 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 05:03:48 GMT

Hello,

I saw a previous post that suggested to do this with proc sql, and for the past couple hours I try, and I end up with freezing, and restarting SAS. UGH.

In another post, I read that when using proc sql join for larger data, it can take much longer than just data/proc steps.

So I am trying to figure out how to pull patient IDs (patid) for those patients who had continuous insurance enrollment for the full 365 days prior (no breaks), to an index date (fst_dt).

Where I am having difficulty is that a patid may have multiple records, with multiple insurance start/end dates (eligeff and eligend, respectively, and these may have breaks in them.

(all dates YYMMDD10.)

See snip of data below:

for ex. row 26-31 are for the same patid.

#26 the index date is 7-17-2018 , and insurance started 10-1-17 and ended 12-31-2019.

so if the indicator for a person having enrollment 365 days prior is called "eligible", here it would be 0. because insurance started in october the previous year instead of july. So this one doesn't count.

#27 however, does qualify because the insurance start date (10-01-2017) was 365 days before the index, (fst_dt=10-01-2018).

If you look at lines #3 and #4 though, it's not as clear cut--there's a gap between insurance start/end dates between observations for the same patient.

I hope this makes sense. I appreciate any help.

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 10:24:53 GMT

Please post your data in usable form. Pictures are not usable.

Post a working data step with datalines that recreates your data into a code box opened with the "little running man" button.

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

PaigeMiller — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:07:27 GMT

You were asked in your previous thread to provide data in a usable form. Please don't make us ask every time you have a question. We're trying to help you, but you have to help us as well.

Instructions: https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2016/03/11/jedi-sas-tricks-data-to-data-step-macro/

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

Student77 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:39:56 GMT

data enrolled;
input patid fst_dt :YYMMDD10. eligeff :YYMMDD10. eligend :YYMMDD10.;
format fst_dt YYMMDD10. eligeff YYMMDD10. eligend YYMMDD10.;

cards;
123 2017-12-13 2017-07-01 2019-05-31
123 2019-02-06 2017-07-01 2019-05-31
212 2018-07-17 2017-10-01 2019-12-31
212 2018-10-01 2017-10-01 2019-12-31
212 2019-02-15 2017-10-01 2019-12-31
212 2019-06-10 2017-10-01 2019-12-31
212 2019-09-11 2017-10-01 2019-12-31
540 2019-05-21 2017-12-01 2019-12-31


;
proc print;
run;

*need to create an indicator variable "eligible" if, a record (each observation line) has continuous enrollment 365 days prior 
to index. so (fst_date)-365 =all those date should be included between eligeff and eligend

obs#3 would Not be eligible,
obs#4 would be eligible;

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

PaigeMiller — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:04:10 GMT

If I am understanding the requirements properly:

data want;
    set enrolled;
    if eligeff<=fst_dt-365 and eligend>=fst_dt then flag=1;
    else flag=0;
run;

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

Student77 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:20:56 GMT

whoa, that's it?! I was trying to do a do loop with an indicator for each month prior and proc sql -_-

Thanks!!

Re: How to select patients with continuous insurance enrollment prior to an index date?

PaigeMiller — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 12:02:07 GMT

@Student77 wrote:

whoa, that's it?! I was trying to do a do loop with an indicator for each month prior and proc sql -_-

Isn't that the logic? Compare the effective date to 365 days before fst_dt and the eligibility end date to fst_dt?