Get position of therapy types within the referral pathways

Get the number of courses of therapy by therapy type and position within the referral pathway. A course of therapy is a set of 2 or more attended treatment appointments where the same therapy type is recorded that occur within a referral pathway. Counts are based on referrals finishing a course of treatment in the year. Other low/high internsity and low/high employment support therapy types have been excluded from theses analyses.

Usage

get_therapy_position_annual(periods = NULL, use_cache = TRUE)

Arguments

periods

Character vector, specifying periods (e.g., "2023-24", "2024-25"). If NULL (default), returns all available annual periods

use_cache

Logical, specifying whether to use cached data if available. Default TRUE.

Value

Tibble with key measures data in long format

Details

Raw data is automatically stored in parquet format for efficient compression.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get all annual periods
therapy_position_df <- get_therapy_position_annual()

# Get specific annual periods
therapy_position_df <- get_therapy_position_annual(periods = c("2023-24", "2024-25"))

# Bypass cache to use latest tidying logic
therapy_position_df <- get_therapy_position_annual(periods = "2023-24", use_cache = FALSE)
} # }