System and methods for generating physician profiles concerning prescription therapy practices with self-adaptive predictive model
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1. A method for generating a profile concerning the prescription therapy practices of at least one physician in a therapeutic area of interest, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving data for a continuous variable corresponding to prescriptions issued to at least one de-identified patient by at least one physician;
(b) for each number of levels of a predetermined range of levels, converting said continuous variable into a categorical variable having a respective number of levels;
(c) for each said number of levels of said predetermined range of levels, measuring the degree of statistical relationship of said categorical variable with an occurrence of an event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest;
(d) identifying one number of levels of said predetermined range of levels of said categorical variable having the greatest statistical significance with the occurrence of the event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest;
(e) repeating steps (a)-(d) for each one of a plurality of additional continuous variables; and
(f) estimating the probability of the occurrence of the event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest by running a predictive model using said number of levels of said categorical variables identified in steps (a)-(e).
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Abstract
The invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing prescription claim histories for physicians, and creating profiles of the prescription therapies of such physicians.
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1. A method for generating a profile concerning the prescription therapy practices of at least one physician in a therapeutic area of interest, comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving data for a continuous variable corresponding to prescriptions issued to at least one de-identified patient by at least one physician;
(b) for each number of levels of a predetermined range of levels, converting said continuous variable into a categorical variable having a respective number of levels;
(c) for each said number of levels of said predetermined range of levels, measuring the degree of statistical relationship of said categorical variable with an occurrence of an event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest;
(d) identifying one number of levels of said predetermined range of levels of said categorical variable having the greatest statistical significance with the occurrence of the event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest;
(e) repeating steps (a)-(d) for each one of a plurality of additional continuous variables; and
(f) estimating the probability of the occurrence of the event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest by running a predictive model using said number of levels of said categorical variables identified in steps (a)-(e). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for generating a profile concerning the prescription therapy practices of at least one physician in a therapeutic area of interest, comprising:
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(a) a mass storage device for storing continuous variable data corresponding to prescriptions issued to at least one de-identified patient by at least one physician;
(b) an input device, coupled to the-mass storage device, for receiving data for a plurality of continuous variables;
(c) a filter, coupled to the input device, configured to convert, for each number of levels of a predetermined range of levels, each said continuous variable into a respective categorical variable having a respective number of levels; and
(d) a statistical model, coupled to the filter, configured to receive each said categorical variable from said filter and to determine, for each said number of levels of said predetermined range of levels, the degree of statistical relationship of each said categorical variable with the occurrence of an event relevant to the prescription therapy practices of the at least one physician in the therapeutic area of interest, said filter configured to supply each said categorical variable to the statistical model, to receive said degree of statistical relationship of each said categorical variable data with the occurrence of the event as determined by the statistical model for each said number of levels of said predetermined range of levels, and to identify one of said number of levels of each said categorical variable having the greatest statistically significant relationship with the occurrence of the event, said statistical model configured to determine, for each said number of levels of said predetermined range of levels, the degree of statistical relationship of each said categorical variable in conjunction with all said categorical variables with the occurrence of the event, said filter configured to identify one of said number of levels of each said categorical variable in conjunction with all said categorical variables having the greatest statistically significant relationship with the occurrence of the event, and said statistical model further configured to estimate the probability of the occurrence of the event by using all said categorical variables having the respective number of levels identified by the filter. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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