Phototherapy data
Description
Dataset used in Chapter 9 of Regression Methods in Biostatistics (2nd edition), as distributed on the UCSF companion website. Study design: Observational neonatal jaundice cohort used for confounding-adjusted phototherapy analyses. Primary article: RMB2e phototherapy-cost example dataset.
Usage
phototherapy
Format
A data frame with 20731 rows and 11 variables:
- age_days
- Age at qualifying TSB measurement
- birth_wt
- Birth weight (kg)
- bwcat
- Birth weight
- gest_age
- Gestational age (wks)
- hospital
- Kaiser hospital of birth
- id
- Observation number (de-identified ID)
- male
- Indicator for male sex.
- over_thresh
- Over transfusion threshold
- phototherapy
- Phototherapy
- qual_TSB
- Qual TSB - PT threshold (mg/dL)
- year
- Year of Birth