Clustering of 27,525,663 Death Records from the United States Based on Health Conditions Associated with Death: An Example of big Health Data Exploration.
Daisy J A Janssen Nienke NakkenSimon RechbergerEmiel F M WoutersJos M G A ScholsMiriam J JohnsonDavid C CurrowJ Randall CurtisMartijn A. SpruitPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2019)
The prevalence of multiple health conditions at death requires a shift from disease-oriented towards person-centred palliative care at the end of life, including timely advance care planning. Understanding differences in population-based patterns and clusters of end-of-life experiences is an important step toward developing a strategy for implementing population-based palliative care.