Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
From: Big data analysis techniques to address polypharmacy in patients – a scoping review
Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|
English-language articles German-language articles | Articles in other languages |
All kinds of studies evaluating big data analysis techniques | Big cohort studies examining data from electronic health records |
Big data as computational analysis of extremely large data sets to find patterns, trends and associations | Studies using classical statistics programs |
Patients with polypharmacy (more than 3 medications) | Patients consuming less than 3 medications |
Big data analysis techniques to identify patients with polypharmacy as well as drug interactions or adverse drug events in patients on multiple medications were included | Studies focusing on identifying new drug-drug interactions or new drug combinations |