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Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts

Cockburn, Neil; Hammond, Ben; Gani, Illin; Cusworth, Samuel; Acharya, Aditya; Gokhale, Krishna; Thayakaran, Rasiah; Crowe, Francesca; Minhas, Sonica; Parry-Smith, William; Taylor, Beck; Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah; Chandan, Joht Singh

Authors

Neil Cockburn

Ben Hammond

Illin Gani

Samuel Cusworth

Aditya Acharya

Krishna Gokhale

Rasiah Thayakaran

Francesca Crowe

Sonica Minhas

Beck Taylor

Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar

Joht Singh Chandan



Abstract

Motivation
Data is increasingly used for improvement and research in public health, especially administrative data such as that collected in electronic health records. Patients enter and exit these typically open-cohort datasets non-uniformly; this can render simple questions about incidence and prevalence time-consuming and with unnecessary variation between analyses. We therefore developed methods to automate analysis of incidence and prevalence in open cohort datasets, to improve transparency, productivity and reproducibility of analyses.

Implementation
We provide both a code-free set of rules for incidence and prevalence that can be applied to any open cohort, and a python Command Line Interface implementation of these rules requiring python 3.9 or later.

General features
The Command Line Interface is used to calculate incidence and point prevalence time series from open cohort data. The ruleset can be used in developing other implementations or can be rearranged to form other analytical questions such as period prevalence.

Availability
The command line interface is freely available from https://github.com/THINKINGGroup/analogy_publication.

Citation

Cockburn, N., Hammond, B., Gani, I., Cusworth, S., Acharya, A., Gokhale, K., …Chandan, J. S. (in press). Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts. BMC medical research methodology, 24, Article 144. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02266-7

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 24, 2024
Online Publication Date Jul 4, 2024
Deposit Date Jul 8, 2024
Publicly Available Date Jul 8, 2024
Journal BMC Medical Research Methodology
Print ISSN 1471-2288
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Article Number 144
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02266-7
Public URL https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/872141
Publisher URL https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-024-02266-7

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