Monitoring prescribing patterns using regression and electronic health records
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Monitoring prescribing patterns using regression and electronic health records
BACKGROUND It is beneficial for health care institutions to monitor physician prescribing patterns to ensure that high-quality and cost-effective care is being provided to patients. However, detecting treatment patterns within an institution is challenging, given that medications and conditions are often not explicitly linked in the health record. Here we demonstrate the use of statistical meth...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0575-5