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 individual...

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Publicado en:	European Journal of Public Health Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 615 - 622
Autores principales:	Slobbe, Laurentius C J, Füssenich, Koen, Wong, Albert, Boshuizen, Hendriek C, Nielen, Markus M J, Polder, Johan J, Feenstra, Talitha L, Oers, Hans A M van
Formato:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Aug2019
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