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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Clustering of 27,525,663 Death Records from the United States Based on Health Conditions Associated with Death: An Example of big Health Data Exploration.

Daisy J A Janssen, Simon Rechberger, Emiel F M Wouters, Jos M G A Schols, Miriam J Johnson, David C Currow, J Randall Curtis, Martijn A Spruit

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Daisy J A JanssenDepartment of Research & Education, CIRO, Centre of expertise for chronic organ failure, 6085NM Horn, The Netherlands. daisyjanssen@ciro-horn.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-1827-9869
Simon RechbergerViscovery Software GmbH, 1130 Vienna, Austria.
Emiel F M WoutersDepartment of Research & Education, CIRO, Centre of expertise for chronic organ failure, 6085NM Horn, The Netherlands.
Jos M G A ScholsDepartment of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, 6229GT Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Miriam J JohnsonWolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull and York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
David C CurrowIMPACCT, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW2007 New South Wales, Australia.
J Randall CurtisCambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
Martijn A SpruitDepartment of Research & Education, CIRO, Centre of expertise for chronic organ failure, 6085NM Horn, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3822-7430
Maastricht University Medical Centre · NLMaastricht University · NLUniversity of Hull · GBUniversity of Technology Sydney · AUUniversity of Washington · USViscovery Software (Austria) · AT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInsight into health conditions associated with death can inform healthcare policy. We aimed to cluster 27,525,663 deceased people based on the health conditions associated with death to study the associations between the health condition clusters, demographics, the recorded underlying cause and place of death.

methodsData from all deaths in the United States registered between 2006 and 2016 from the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics were analyzed. A self-organizing map (SOM) was used to create an ordered representation of the mortality data.

results16 clusters based on the health conditions associated with death were found showing significant differences in socio-demographics, place, and cause of death. Most people died at old age (73.1 (18.0) years) and had multiple health conditions. Chronic ischemic heart disease was the main cause of death. Most people died in the hospital or at home.

conclusionsThe prevalence of multiple health conditions at death requires a shift from disease-oriented towards person-centred palliative care at the end of life, including timely advance care planning. Understanding differences in population-based patterns and clusters of end-of-life experiences is an important step toward developing a strategy for implementing population-based palliative care.

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ageingdeathdeath certificatesdelivery of health caremortalitymulti-morbiditypalliative care

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PMCPMC6678953
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