Creating an index to measure health state of depressed patients in automated healthcare databases: the methodology

• Main Authors: Clément François (Author), Adrian Tanasescu (Author), François-Xavier Lamy (Author), Nicolas Despiegel (Author), Bruno Falissard (Author), Ylana Chalem (Author), Christophe Lançon (Author), Pierre-Michel Llorca (Author), Delphine Saragoussi (Author), Patrice Verpillat (Author), Alan G. Wade (Author), Djamel A. Zighed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and objective: Automated healthcare databases (AHDB) are an important data source for real life drug and healthcare use. In the filed of depression, lack of detailed clinical data requires the use of binary proxies with important limitations. The study objective was to create a Depressive...