A data frame with example medications that might be used during fertility treatment/first trimester.
It is an example of a data frame that might be used as the meds argument to medications_remaining().
Format
medications is a data frame with 14 rows and 5 columns.
medications_simple is a data frame with 4 rows and 5 columns.
- medication
Name of the medication
- format
Format of medication
- quantity
Number taken per day
- start_date
Date to start taking the medication
- stop_date
Final date on which the medication is taken. See details.
An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 4 rows and 5 columns.
Details
Note that the same medication (prednisolone in this example) has several rows, first because the quantity taken per day changes, then because it needs to be taken on non-consecutive days.
Examples
medications
#> # A tibble: 14 × 5
#> medication format quantity start_date stop_date
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <date> <date>
#> 1 progynova tablet 3 2025-07-21 2025-07-30
#> 2 LDA tablet 1 2025-07-21 2025-08-07
#> 3 prednisolone tablet 2 2025-07-26 2025-08-07
#> 4 progynova tablet 6 2025-08-01 2025-10-11
#> 5 cyclogest pessary 2 2025-08-03 2025-10-11
#> 6 lubion injection 1 2025-08-03 2025-10-11
#> 7 clexane injection 1 2025-08-08 2025-12-05
#> 8 prednisolone tablet 4 2025-08-08 2025-10-11
#> 9 prednisolone tablet 3 2025-10-12 2025-10-14
#> 10 prednisolone tablet 2 2025-10-15 2025-10-17
#> 11 prednisolone tablet 1 2025-10-18 2025-10-20
#> 12 prednisolone tablet 1 2025-10-22 2025-10-22
#> 13 prednisolone tablet 1 2025-10-24 2025-10-24
#> 14 prednisolone tablet 1 2025-10-26 2025-10-26
medications_simple
#> # A tibble: 4 × 5
#> medication format quantity start_date stop_date
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <date> <date>
#> 1 progynova tablet 3 2025-08-21 2025-08-31
#> 2 progynova tablet 6 2025-09-01 2025-09-11
#> 3 cyclogest pessary 2 2025-09-03 2025-09-11
#> 4 clexane injection 1 2025-09-08 2025-11-05