CaseControl

This package is no longer being supported It is provided as is.

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 logistic regression

Technology

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

System Requirements

Requires R. Installation on Windows requires RTools. Libraries used in CaseControl require Java.

Installation

1. See the instructions here for configuring your R environment, including RTools and Java.

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

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ohdsi/CaseControl")

User Documentation

Documentation can be found on the package website.

PDF versions of the documentation are also available:

• Vignette: Single studies using the CaseControl package
• Vignette: Running multiple analyses at once using the CaseControl package
• Package manual: CaseControl.pdf

Support

• Developer questions/comments/feedback: <a href="http://forums.ohdsi.org/c/developers">OHDSI Forum</a>
• We use the <a href="https://github.com/OHDSI/CaseControl/issues">GitHub issue tracker</a> for all bugs/issues/enhancements

Contributing

Read here how you can contribute to this package.

License

CaseControl is licensed under Apache License 2.0

Development

CaseControl is being developed in R Studio.

Development status

No longer supported.