Big data analysis techniques to address polypharmacy in patients - a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polypharmacy is a key challenge in healthcare especially in older and multimorbid patients. The use of multiple medications increases the potential for drug interactions and for prescription of potentially inappropriate medications. eHealth solutions are increasingly recommended in healthcare, with big data analysis techniques as a major component. In the following we use the term analysis of big data as referring to the computational analysis of large data sets to find patterns, trends, and associations in large data sets collected from a wide range of sources in contrast to using classical statistics programs. It is hypothesized that big data analysis is able to reveal patterns in patient data that would not be identifiable using conventional methods of data analysis.

SUBMITTER: Wilfling D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7472702 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature