Identifying common treatments from Electronic Health Records with missing information. An application to breast cancer.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the sequence of actions in the health system associated with a particular disease. In order to do that, using Electronic Health Records, we define a general methodology that allows us to: (I) identify the actions in the health system associated with a disease; (ii...

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Autores: Zaballa, O., Pérez, A., Gómez-Inhiesto, E., Acaiturri-Ayesta, T., Lozano, J.A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/1247
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/1247
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sequence classification
Electronic Health Records
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to analyze the sequence of actions in the health system associated with a particular disease. In order to do that, using Electronic Health Records, we define a general methodology that allows us to: (I) identify the actions in the health system associated with a disease; (ii) identify those patients with a complete treatment for the disease; (iii) and discover common treatment pathways followed by the patients with a specific diagnosis. The methodology takes into account the characteristics of the EHRs, such as record heterogeneity and missing information. As an example, we use the proposed methodology to analyze breast cancer disease. For this diagnosis, 5 groups of treatments, which fit in with medical practice guidelines and expert knowledge, were obtained.