adheRenceRX - Assess Medication Adherence from Pharmaceutical Claims Data
A (mildly) opinionated set of functions to help assess
medication adherence for researchers working with medication
claims data. Medication adherence analyses have several complex
steps that are often convoluted and can be time-intensive. The
focus is to create a set of functions using "tidy principles"
geared towards transparency, speed, and flexibility while
working with adherence metrics. All functions perform exactly
one task with an intuitive name so that a researcher can handle
details (often achieved with vectorized solutions) while we
handle non-vectorized tasks common to most adherence
calculations such as adjusting fill dates and determining
episodes of care. The methodologies in referenced in this
package come from Canfield SL, et al (2019) "Navigating the
Wild West of Medication Adherence Reporting in Specialty
Pharmacy" <doi:10.18553/jmcp.2019.25.10.1073>.