Published on in Vol 10, No 12 (2022): December

This is a member publication of University of Oxford (Jisc)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272504v1, first published .
Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians’ Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review

Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians’ Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review

Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians’ Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review

Brian MacKenna   1 * , MPharm ;   Helen J Curtis   1 * , DPhil ;   Lisa E M Hopcroft   1 , PhD ;   Alex J Walker   1 , PhD ;   Richard Croker   1 , MSc ;   Orla Macdonald   1 , MPharm ;   Stephen J W Evans   2 , MSc ;   Peter Inglesby   1 , MPhil ;   David Evans   1 , MPhil ;   Jessica Morley   1 , MSc ;   Sebastian C J Bacon   1 , BA ;   Ben Goldacre   1 , MRCPsych

1 Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

2 Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Ben Goldacre, MRCPsych
  • Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
  • Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
  • University of Oxford
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