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Mining Of Primary Healthcare Patient Data With Selective Multimorbid Diseases, Annette Megerdichian Azad
Mining Of Primary Healthcare Patient Data With Selective Multimorbid Diseases, Annette Megerdichian Azad
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Despite a large volume of research on the prognosis, diagnosis and overall burden of multimorbidity, very little is known about socio-demographic characteristics of multimorbid patients. This thesis aims to analyze the socio-demographic characteristics of patients with multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity), focusing on patient groups sharing the same combination of diseases. Several methods were explored to analyze the co-occurrence of multiple chronic diseases as well as the associations between socio-demographics and chronic conditions. These methods include disease pair distributions over gender, age groups and income level quintiles, Multimorbidity Coefficients for measuring the concurrence of disease pairs and triples, and k-modes clustering …