The concept of care pathways is increasingly being used to enhance the quality of care and
to optimize the use of resources for health care. We here propose an innovative method in …

While state sequence analysis (SSA) has been long used in social sciences, its use in
pharmacoepidemiology is still in its infancy. Indeed, this technique is relatively easy to use …

Secondary use of medical and administrative databases has become a powerful tool for
epidemiological studies. In that respect, the recent access opening of French nationwide …

Background Healthcare, as with other sectors, has undergone progressive digitalization,
generating an ever-increasing wealth of data that enables research and the analysis of …

The expanded disability status scale (EDSS) is an ordinal score that measures progression
in multiple sclerosis (MS). Progression is defined as reaching EDSS of a certain level …

Background: The concept of care pathways is widely used to provide efficient, timely, and
evidence-based medical care. Recently, the investigation of actual empirical patient …

Understanding how multiple conditions develop over time is of growing interest, but there is
currently limited methodological development on the topic, especially in understanding how …

Clinical pathways leave traces, described as event sequences with regard to a mixture of
various latent treatment behaviors. Measuring similarities between patient traces can …

Advance Access Publication Date: 20 November 2021 Cohort Profile may lack relevant
sociodemographic characteristics (eg education level, income or gender) as well as other …

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Analysis for Interpretation of Data From Clinical Trials : Medical Care Log in or Register …