Iteration 2

Deeper Medication Analysis

Question(s) Being Answered:

From Polypharmacy Rates in the Elderly Prototypical Question 1, this iteration will answer the question:

What classes of medications are commonly prescribed in BC?

The details of this question are described in the question page. The classification scheme for medications we will be using will be ATC.

Rationale:

We are still building the architecture in the lab, learning about EMR data limits and building our knowledge. So we are continuing with medications.

There are many reasons that this question is a good next choice from a design perspective.

• This question is observational, so there is no need to simulate a prospective trial.
• The data set remains limited and the data should be fairly well structured, compared to other data we will encounter.
• We are currently getting medication data from OSCAR, our test EMR.
• It gets us "kicking the tires" a bit more on the query side of the design. We need to move from specific medication data and abstract to ATC classes.

It is also an important question to several of our stakeholders in the divisions of family practice. Finally, current medications and demographics will be foundational to asking other questions in the future.

See:

Features for Iteration 2