Multi-Morbidity Index Scoring 

Assigned Reading

Background Reading

1. Read "Introduction to Probability", pages 55 to 75 in required course textbook

Reading on Multimorbidity Index:

1. Read "Risk Assessment", pages 101-133 in required course textbook

Other Learning Materials:

1. Conditional probability Slides► YouTube►
2. Likelihood ratio Slides► YouTube►
3. Selecting the right predictors Slides► YouTube►
4. SQL for calculating likelihood ratios Slides► YouTube►

Assignment for Scoring Multi-Morbidity Index

Instruction for Submission of Assignments: Assignments should be submitted directly on Blackboard.  In rare situations assignments can be sent directly by email to the instructor. Submission should follow these rules:

1. Submit your answers in a Jupyter Notebook Download► YouTube► Slides►
2. Submit you answers in Blackboard.

Task 1: Clean these data by removing (1) patients who have negative age, and (2) repeated diagnoses for the same patient at same age. Provide the number of records left in the data after this two corrections are made.

• Read steps for doing this in "Introduction to SQL", pages 11 to 53 in required course textbook
• Massive patient data Video► Download► SQL► Slides► Screen Shots►

Task 2: For the patient in the cleaned data in Task 1, calculate the likelihood ratios associated with each diagnosis predicting mortality in 6-month. 

• Massive patient data (see Task 1)   
• In required textbook see pages 66 to 68 for introduction to concept of likelihood ratios.  See section on "Contingency Tables and Likelihood Ratios"
• In the required textbook examine code for calculation of likelihood ratios in Appendix 5.1 pages 125 to 132
• Grace Buck's Teach One Slides► YouTube►
• Saini's Teach One Slides► YouTube►
• Rajan Atwal's Teach One Slides► YouTube►

Task 3: What is the assumption we make when we multiply likelihood ratios associated with patients medical history.