Tools of Utilization and Cost in Healthcare

R implementation of the software tools developed in the H-CUP (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project) < https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov> and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) < https://www.ahrq.gov>. It currently contains functions for mapping ICD-9 codes to the AHRQ comorbidity measures and translating ICD-9 (resp. ICD-10) codes to ICD-10 (resp. ICD-9) codes based on GEM (General Equivalence Mappings) from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

R Package touch

The package touch (Tools of unilization and cost in healthcare) provides R implementation of the software tools developed in the H-CUP (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

It currently contains functions for

• mapping ICD-9 codes to the AHRQ comorbidity measures
• translating ICD-9 (resp. ICD-10) codes to ICD-10 (resp. ICD-9) codes based on GEM (General Equivalence Mappings) from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

Installation

You may install the released version from CRAN.

install.packages("touch")

Development

One may install the latest version under development as follows:

if (! require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("wenjie2wang/touch", upgrade = "never")

License

GNU General Public License (≥ 3)