Create a plot over time of patient categorical findings as a line chart

This plots the findings at endoscopy (or pathology) over time for individual patients. An example might be with worst pathological grade on biopsy for Barrett's oesophagus over time

Usage

PatientFlowIndividual(
  theframe,
  EndoReportColumn,
  myNotableWords,
  DateofProcedure,
  PatientID
)

Arguments

theframe

dataframe

EndoReportColumn

the column containing the date of the procedure

myNotableWords

The terms from a column with categorical variables

DateofProcedure

Column with the date of the procedure

PatientID

Column with the patient's unique identifier

See also

Other Patient Flow functions: SurveySankey()

Examples

# This function builds chart of categorical outcomes for individal patients over time
# It allows a two dimensional visualisation of patient progress. A perfect example is 
# visualising the Barrett's progression for patients on surveillance and then
# therapy if dysplasia develops and highlighting recurrence if it happens
# Barretts_df <- BarrettsAll(Myendo, "Findings", "OGDReportWhole", Mypath, "Histology")
# myNotableWords<-c("No_IM","IM","LGD","HGD","T1a","IGD","SM1","SM2")
# PatientFlowIndividual(Barretts_df,"IMorNoIM",myNotableWords,DateofProcedure,"HospitalNumber")
# Once the function is run you should always call dev.off()