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Cluster analysis to detect patterns of drug use from routinely collected medical data
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Appropriate drug prescription for an increasingly ageing and multi-morbid population can be a challenge for general practitioners. This study uses unsupervised learning methods to identify different types of patient profiles which could inform policymakers and regulators about patterns of drug use, and identify specific clusters of users with unknown drug effects (risk and benefit). Hard and soft clustering methods are proposed to detect patterns of medication use by patients and to estimate ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Institute of Health Research
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Funding agency for:
Prieto-Alhambra, D
Grant:
Clinician Scientist award (CS-2013-13-012
NIHR Oxford Biomedical
Research Centre
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- IEEE Publisher's website
- Journal:
- 2018 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) Journal website
- Volume:
- 2018-June
- Pages:
- 194-198
- Host title:
- 2018 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-04-25
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1063-7125
- Source identifiers:
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905259
- ISBN:
- 9781538660607
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:905259
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uuid:696e83b9-3557-47ab-afe9-ed50ef24c0d3
- Local pid:
- pubs:905259
- Deposit date:
- 2018-08-13
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- Copyright holder:
- IEEE
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 IEEE. This is the accepted manuscript version of the paper. The final version is available online from IEEE at: https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2018.00041
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