UKBCaseFinder

A tool for identifying patients in UK biobank given the definition of disease phenotypes (icd10, icd9, opcs or cancer histology).

Here we combine 3 data sources: hospital in-patient episode records (hesin), death records, and cancer records to identify all the patients and their earlist onset date.

Installing UKBCaseFinder

To install the development version from github (the package devtools is required):

library(devtools)
install_github("yeyixuan/UKBCaseFinder")

Once installed, the package can be loaded using:

library(UKBCaseFinder)