Assessing the accuracy of using diagnostic codes from administrative data to infer antidepressant treatment indications: a validation study.

Sengwee TohMichal AbrahamowiczDavid L BuckeridgeRobyn Tamblyn

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2018)

Administrative diagnostic codes are poor proxies for antidepressant treatment indications. Future work should determine whether the use of other variables in administrative data besides diagnostic codes can improve the ability to predict antidepressant treatment indications.

Keyphrases

major depressive disorder
combination therapy
big data
bipolar disorder
deep learning