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UNDERSTANDING CHRONIC DISEASE COMORBIDITIES FROM BASELINE NETWORKS – KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY UTILISING ADMINISTRATIVE HEALTHCARE DATA

Hospitals routinely collect admitted patients’ data for administrative purposes and for reporting to the government and health insurers. These heterogeneous and mostly untapped data contain rich semantic information about patients’ health conditions in the form of standard disease codes. These traces of clinical information can be aggregated over patients to understand how their health progresses

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CASE-MIX BASED PEER CLUSTERING

We consider the problem of clustering hospitals based on their case-mix distributions. Hospitals belong to the same cluster if they offer the same mix of services and have similar demand for those services. The cluster labels can be used to control for case-mix in hospital level analyses. Methods: We obtained distributions of the 770 AR-DRGv7.0 for

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