qSOFA calculation function

Finds the current qSOFA score

find_qsofa(
  .data,
  patientid,
  time,
  period = 1,
  vitals = c(RR = NA, SBP = NA, GCS = NA)
)

Arguments

.data

Your dataset. Must have respiratory rate (rr), systolic blood pressure (sbp). and glasgow coma scale (gcs).
patientid

A value indicating the unique patient id, usually an encounter number.
time

A POSIXct value indicating the timestamp for when vitals where taken.
period

A numeric value that indicates how long one vital is good for, default is one hour. Note: This will only fill in missing vitals.
vitals

A character vector denoting what columns represent the vitals needed to calculate qSOFA

Examples

result <- find_qsofa(qsofa_data, patientid = Encounter, time = Service_Timestamp, 
vitals = c("RR" = "RR", "SBP" = "SBP", "GCS" = "GCS"))