Estimating disease prevalence from drug utilization data using the Random Forest algorithm

BACKGROUND: Aggregated claims data on medication are often used as a proxy for the prevalence of diseases, especially chronic diseases. However, linkage between medication and diagnosis tend to be theory based and not very precise. Modelling disease probability at an individual level using individua...

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Autores principales: Slobbe, Laurentius C J, Füssenich, Koen, Wong, Albert, Boshuizen, Hendriek C, Nielen, Markus M J, Polder, Johan J, Feenstra, Talitha L, van Oers, Hans A M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
Materias:
Public Health Monitoring
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30608539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky270

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30608539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky270

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