Medication Use for Childhood Pneumonia at a Children’s Hospital in Shanghai, China: Analysis of Pattern Mining Algorithms

Chunlei Tang   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Huajun Sun   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Yun Xiong   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Jiahong Yang   ⁴ , MPH ;   Christopher Vitale   ⁵ , PharmD ;   Lu Ruan   ³ , MSc ;   Angela Ai   ¹ , BA ;   Guangjun Yu   ² , PhD ;   Jing Ma   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   David Bates   ¹ , MD, MSc

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

² Children’s Hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

³ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁴ Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center, Shanghai, China

⁵ Clinical Informatics for the Integrated Health Model Initiative, American Medical Association, Chicago, IA, United States

⁶ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally