A two-step approach for mining patient treatment pathways in administrative healthcare databases

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Highlights：

• Design and extraction of treatment pathways from administrative health databases.

• Proposed multi-level method for building and extracting patterns of the pathways.

• Application for databases of elderly people in Quebec having heart failure problems.

• Sophisticated analysis and visualization of patterns extracted from the databases.

• Interpretation and discovery of relevant patterns from the databases.

摘要

•Design and extraction of treatment pathways from administrative health databases.•Proposed multi-level method for building and extracting patterns of the pathways.•Application for databases of elderly people in Quebec having heart failure problems.•Sophisticated analysis and visualization of patterns extracted from the databases.•Interpretation and discovery of relevant patterns from the databases.

论文关键词：Process clustering,Process mining,Mixed variables,HMM,k-Prototypes,Healthcare databases,Medical treatment process

论文评审过程：Received 13 November 2016, Revised 8 March 2018, Accepted 22 March 2018, Available online 7 April 2018, Version of Record 28 May 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.03.004