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hein68
Quartz | Level 8

Hello.  I have data like this (see below), but it has over 4,000 patientID, encounterID, and date/time combinations.  I want to be able to write code to condense the data down to 1 row per patientID, encounterID, date/time combination.  

 

patientID encounterID Date/time variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5
1 333 7/11/2016 19:01       6  
1 333 7/12/2016 19:01          
1 333 7/13/2016 19:01 13        
1 333 7/14/2016 19:01     15    
1 333 7/15/2016 19:01          
1 333 7/16/2016 19:01          
1 333 7/17/2016 19:01         8
1 333 7/18/2016 19:01   24      
1 333 7/19/2016 19:01          
1 333 7/20/2016 19:01          

 

So in the example above I would end up with 1 row like this (see below), but I want to use simple code to handle all of the 4,000+ combinations of patientID, encounterID, and date/time.

 

patientID encounterID Date/time variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5
1 333 7/11/2016 19:01 13 24 15 6

8

 

Thanks!

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
proc summary data=have nway;
     class patientid encounterid date_time;
     var variable1-variable5;
     output out=want sum=;
run;
--
Paige Miller

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
proc summary data=have nway;
     class patientid encounterid date_time;
     var variable1-variable5;
     output out=want sum=;
run;
--
Paige Miller
maguiremq
SAS Super FREQ

This assumes your data is sorted by the BY statement I have in there.

 

proc means
	data = have noprint;
	by patientid encounterid datetime;
	var variable:;
	output out = want (drop = _:)
		max() = ;
run;

Produces something like this (note: I only reproduced part of your code since it wasn't in the DATALINES format.):

patientid encounterid variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5 
1 333 13 24 15 6 8 

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