Multilevel Bayesian networks for the analysis of hierarchical health care data

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-183

  Lappenschaar, Martijn ^a   Hommersom, Arjen ^a   Lucas, Peter J F ^a   Lagro, Joep ^b   Visscher, Stefan ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Cardiovascular disease; Disease prediction; Inter practice variation; Multilevel analysis; Multimorbidity

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INTER-PRACTICE VARIATION; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIMORBIDITY;

FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTILEVEL BAYESIAN NETWORK; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BAYES THEOREM; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876701374     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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