Construct Vaccine Name Associated to Immunizing Vaccine — get_immunization

This function is used in cases where several columns with vaccine dates and different names are provided by the user. It returns a column with the name of the vaccine used as immunizing. The parameters are set in agreement with get_immunization_date.

Usage

get_immunization_vaccine(
  data_set,
  immunization_date_col,
  vacc_date_col,
  vacc_name_col,
  immunization_delay
)

Arguments

data_set: data.frame with cohort information (see example).
vacc_date_col: Name of the column(s) that contain the vaccine dates.
vacc_name_col: Name of the column(s) that contain custom vaccine names for the vaccines (e.g. brand name, type of vaccine)
immunization_delay: Characteristic time in days before the patient is considered immune.

Value

Custom vaccine names of the immunizing vaccine.