Main Concept of Data cut process
The main idea of {datacutr} is to provide a standardized approach to applying a datacut to SDTM datasets.
The process applied by the package is the following,
- create a meta dataset
DCUTthat references all patients to be included within the cut, and the cut date to be used as reference (normally the Clinical Cut-off Date that data has been cleaned to).
- using
DCUTas reference, records can be removed from the SDTM data that are either a) patients not part of the referenceDCUT, or b) records that can be identified as after the data cut date supplied.