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Inferring 'Therapeutic States' of Patients from Community Electronic Prescribing Data
2006
Journal of Health Informaticsnet
unpublished
We set out to devise a method for analysis of chronic disease therapeutic decision making with specific emphasis on practice patterns across multiple consultations and providers within a single community-based practice. We examine treatment by abstracting each patient's therapeutic state at any given time as a vector of n Boolean state variables, each representing a key decision in the domain under examination. We illustrate the method where the state variables are inferred from electronic
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