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

Source

UCSF companion data