Clustering of 27,525,663 Death Records from the United States Based on Health Conditions Associated with Death: An Example of Big Health Data Exploration Universiteit Hasselt
Background: Insight into health conditions associated with death can inform healthcare policy. We aimed to cluster 27,525,663 deceased people based on the health conditions associated with death to study the associations between the health condition clusters, demographics, the recorded underlying cause and place of death. Methods: Data from all deaths in the United States registered between 2006 and 2016 from the National Vital Statistics System ...