OHDSI/CaseControl

Name: CaseControl

Owner: Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics

Description: An R package for performing (nested) matched case-control analyses in an observational database in the OMOP Common Data Model.

Created: 2016-05-18 08:25:08.0

Updated: 2017-11-08 12:31:42.0

Pushed: 2017-11-14 12:11:33.0

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Size: 2116

Language: R

GitHub Committers

User	Most Recent Commit	# Commits
Marc Suchard	2017-05-19 17:30:56.0	4
Martijn Schuemie	2018-03-19 17:05:01.0	41

Other Committers

User	Email	Most Recent Commit	# Commits
Schuemie	mschuemi@its.jnj.com	2017-10-11 03:40:52.0	2

README

CaseControl

Introduction

CaseControl is an R package for performing (nested) matched case-control analyses in an observational database in the OMOP Common Data Model.

Features

• Extracts the necessary data from a database in OMOP Common Data Model format
• Nesting in a cohort of interest (e.g. people with a particular prior condition)
• Matching on age, gender, provider, time in cohort, and/or visit
• Sampling of controls per case
• Fitting outcome models using conditional logisitc regression

Technology

CaseControl is an R package, with some functions implemented in C++.

System Requirements

Requires R (version 3.2.2 or higher). Installation on Windows requires RTools. Libraries used in CaseControl require Java.

Dependencies

• Cyclops
• DatabaseConnector
• SqlRender
• OhdsiRTools

Getting Started

1. On Windows, make sure RTools is installed.

2. The DatabaseConnector and SqlRender packages require Java. Java can be downloaded from http://www.java.com.

3. In R, use the following commands to download and install CaseControl:

   all.packages("drat")
   ::addRepo("OHDSI")
   all.packages("CaseControl")
   

Getting Involved

• Vignette: Single studies using the CaseControl package
• Vignette: Running multiple analyses at once using the CaseControl package
• Package manual: CaseControl.pdf
• Developer questions/comments/feedback: OHDSI Forum
• We use the GitHub issue tracker for all bugs/issues/enhancements

License

CaseControl is licensed under Apache License 2.0

Development

CaseControl is being developed in R Studio.

Development status

Beta