Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review.

Brian Mackenna Helen J Curtis Lisa E M Hopcroft Alex J Walker Richard Croker Orla Macdonald Stephen J W Evans Peter Inglesby David Evans Jessica Morley Sebastian C J Bacon Alex J Walker

Published in: JMIR medical informatics (2022)

Our hypothesis-free approach is able to identify candidates for audit and review in clinical practice. To illustrate this, we provide 2 examples of 2 very unusual antipsychotics used disproportionately in 2 small geographic areas of England.

Keyphrases

clinical practice
primary care
public health
electronic health record
emergency department
big data
decision making
adverse drug