How Similar Are Drug Data and Disease Self-report? Estimating the Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Less Developed Settings.

Seyed Reza Abdipour MehrianZahra GhahramaniMohammad Reza AkbariElham HashemiEhsan ShojaeefardReza MalekzadehBita MesgarpourAbdullah GandomkarMohammad Reza PanjehshahinJafar HasanzadehFatemeh MalekzadehHossein Molavi Vardanjani

Published in: Archives of Iranian medicine (2024)

Self-reports of diseases and the drug data show a different picture of most diseases' prevalence in our setting. It seems that drug data alone cannot estimate the prevalence of diseases in settings similar to ours. We recommend using drug data in combination with self-report data for epidemiological investigation in the less-developed setting.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
big data
risk factors
adverse drug
emergency department
machine learning
data analysis