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Graph-Representation of Patient Data: a Systematic Literature Review
- Source :
- Journal of Medical Systems
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Graph theory is a well-established theory with many methods used in mathematics to study graph structures. In the field of medicine, electronic health records (EHR) are commonly used to store and analyze patient data. Consequently, it seems straight-forward to perform research on modeling EHR data as graphs. This systematic literature review aims to investigate the frontiers of the current research in the field of graphs representing and processing patient data. We want to show, which areas of research in this context need further investigation. The databases MEDLINE, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore and ACM digital library were queried by using the search terms health record, graph and related terms. Based on the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis” (PRISMA) statement guidelines the articles were screened and evaluated using full-text analysis. Eleven out of 383 articles found in systematic literature review were finally included for analysis in this literature review. Most of them use graphs to represent temporal relations, often representing the connection among laboratory data points. Only two papers report that the graph data were further processed by comparing the patient graphs using similarity measurements. Graphs representing individual patients are hardly used in research context, only eleven papers considered such kind of graphs in their investigations. The potential of graph theoretical algorithms, which are already well established, could help increasing this research field, but currently there are too few papers to estimate how this area of research will develop. Altogether, the use of such patient graphs could be a promising technique to develop decision support systems for diagnosis, medication or therapy of patients using similarity measurements or different kinds of analysis. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10916-020-1538-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
- Subjects :
- Decision support system
Electronic health record
MEDLINE
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Health Informatics
Health informatics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health Information Management
Computer Graphics
Electronic Health Records
030212 general & internal medicine
030304 developmental biology
Electronic Data Processing
0303 health sciences
Information retrieval
business.industry
Systematic literature review
Graph theory
Digital library
Systems-Level Quality Improvement
Data point
Systematic review
Temporal patient graph
Graph (abstract data type)
business
Information Systems
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1573689X and 01485598
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Medical Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3264b73106e72f8d40271891a00e3cb3