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Utilizing Temporal Information In The Ehr For Developing A Novel Continuous Prediction Model, Kang Lin Hsieh

Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a nation-wide prevalent chronic condition, which includes direct and indirect healthcare costs. T2DM, however, is a preventable chronic condition based on previous clinical research. Many prediction models were based on the risk factors identified by clinical trials. One of the major tasks of the T2DM prediction models is to estimate the risks for further testing by HbA1c or fasting plasma glucose to determine whether the patient has or does not have T2DM because nation-wide screening is not cost-effective.

Those models had substantial limitations on data quality, such as missing values. In this dissertation, I …