Veritas’ Cause of Death solution is the first commercially-accessible product to answer “why” someone died
- Clinical causes of death are optimized from 3 years of clinical real-world data for each deceased patient
- Includes primary and secondary causes of death
- Each cause of death has an associated confidence score reflecting the density and quality of real-world data from which it is derived
Steps the COD algorithm performs
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Select up to 3 years of clinical history for deceased individuals
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Map together clinical events for different diseases and conditions
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Apply weightings to events dependent on the clinical interactions and health care provided
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Calculate likely causes of death, dependent on the severity, frequency and recency to death
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Create output including primary and secondary causes of deaths and associated confidence scores
The Cause of Death solution is available in a ready-to-use dataset, and linkable to deidentified real-world data from these partners:
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The Cause of Death solution can be applied to your real-world data within a secure cloud environment to create a custom dataset.
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