Example drug purchase data
purchases_example.RdA synthetic dataset containing drug purchase records for five individuals and two medications, intended for demonstration and testing of the PRE2DUP-R package.
Format
A `data.frame` and `data.table` with the following variables:
- id
Person identifier (integer)
- vnr
Package identifier of the purchased product, Nordic article number (Vnr) in this example (character)
- ATC
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification code (character)
- purchase_date
Date of the purchase (Date)
- n_packages
Amount of purchased product, as number of packages in this example (numeric)
- amount
Estimated total DDDs of the purchase (numeric)
Details
See more about ATC classification at https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc/structure_and_principles/ and about DDDs at https://atcddd.fhi.no/ddd/definition_and_general_considera/.