Medical diagnoses showed low relatedness in an explorative mutual information analysis of 190,837 inpatient cases

We aimed to quantify the shared information between medical diagnoses of an adult inpatient population in order to explore both multimorbidity patterns and vice versa the unrelatedness of medical diagnoses.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - January 11, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jan A. Roth, Thomas Sakoparnig, Simon Neubauer, Eleonore Kuenzel-Pawlik, Martin Gerber, Andreas F. Widmer, Balthasar L. Hug, the PATREC Study Group, Christian Abshagen, Geoffrey Fucile, Martin Gerber, Balthasar L. Hug, Bernd Jaegle, Eleonore Kuenzel-Pawli Tags: Original Article Source Type: research