Transforming a Patient Registry Into a Customized Data Set for the Advanced Statistical Analysis of Health Risk Factors and for Medication-Related Hospitalization Research: Retrospective Hospital Patient Registry Study

Zhivko Taushanov   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Henk Verloo   ^{3, 4 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Boris Wernli   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Saviana Di Giovanni   ^{3, 6} , PhD ;   Armin von Gunten   ⁴ , MD ;   Filipa Pereira   ^{3, 7} , BSc, MSc

¹ Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

² Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

³ School of Health Sciences, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Sion, Switzerland

⁴ Service of Old Age Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

⁵ FORS, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

⁶ Pharmacy Benu Tavil-Chatton, Morges, Switzerland

⁷ Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

*these authors contributed equally