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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2022

Predicting the Physician's Specialty Using a Medical Prescription Database.

Mahboube Akhlaghi, Hamed Tabesh, Behzad Mahaki, Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Erfan Ghasemi, Marjan Mansourian

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mahboube AkhlaghiDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, and Student Research Committee, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Hamed TabeshDepartment of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Behzad MahakiDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Mohammad-Reza MalekpourNon-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Erfan GhasemiNon-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Marjan MansourianEpidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7217-0282

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Abstract

Purpose: The present study is aimed at predicting the physician's specialty based on the most frequent two medications prescribed simultaneously. The results of this study could be utilized in the imputation of the missing data in similar databases. Results: The main findings of the study represent the importance of each combination in predicting the specialty. The final results showed that the combination of amoxicillin-metronidazole has the highest importance in making an accurate prediction. The findings are provided in a user-friendly R-shiny web application, which can be applied to any medical prescription database. Conclusion: Nowadays, a huge amount of data is produced in the field of medical prescriptions, which a significant section of that is missing in the specialty. Thus, imputing the missing variables can lead to valuable results for planning a medication with higher quality, improving healthcare quality, and decreasing expenses.

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MetronidazolePhysiciansAmoxicillinDatabases, FactualHumansPractice Patterns, Physicians'PrescriptionsAmoxicillinMetronidazole

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PMID36158134
PMCPMC9507660

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