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sarahsasuser
Quartz | Level 8

Hi All,

 

I have a data set of patient visits. We want to extract only the patients who have at least 2 visits. How do I do this?

 

Have:

id      visit#

a         1

a         2

a         3

a         4

b         1

c         1

c         2

c         3

d         1

 

The data set I want would only include ids a and c.

 

Thanks!

 

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FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Something like this?

 

data test;

length id visit $1;

input id visit;

datalines;

a 1

a 2

a 3

a 4

b 1

c 1

c 2

c 3

d 1

;

run;

proc sql;

create table sel as

select id

from test

group by id

having count(visit) > 1

;

quit;

data test1;

merge test (in=a) sel (in=b);

by id;

if a and b;

run;

 

//Fredrik

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FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Something like this?

 

data test;

length id visit $1;

input id visit;

datalines;

a 1

a 2

a 3

a 4

b 1

c 1

c 2

c 3

d 1

;

run;

proc sql;

create table sel as

select id

from test

group by id

having count(visit) > 1

;

quit;

data test1;

merge test (in=a) sel (in=b);

by id;

if a and b;

run;

 

//Fredrik

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
  set have;
  by id;
  if if first.id and last.id then delete;
run;

Removes any records where there is only one recor per id.

FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
Sweet!
sarahsasuser
Quartz | Level 8

I like it, but we may decide we want to include people with more observations down the line. I think I'll try FredrikE's method. Thanks!

FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
Replace my merge with:
Proc sql;
Create table new as select a.* from test as a inner join visits as b on a.id = b.id; quit;
Then you don not need to have data sorted.

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