General Practitioners Records Are Epidemiological Predictors of Comorbidities: An Analytical Cross-Sectional 10-Year Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comorbidity represents the co-occurrence of pathological conditions in the same individual, and presents with very complex patterns. In most cases, reference data for the study of various types of comorbidities linked to complex diseases are those of hospitalized patients. Such patients may likely require cure due to acute conditions. We consider the emerging role of EHR (Electronic Healthcare Records), and study comorbidity patterns in a general population, focusing on diabetic and non-diabetic patients.

Methods

We propose a cross-sectional 10-year retrospective study of 14,958 patients and 1,728,736 prescriptions obtained from family doctors, and thus refer to these data as General Practitioner Records (GPR). We then choose networks as the tools to analyze the d

SUBMITTER: Cavallo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6111778 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature