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We conducted clustering analyses to verify whether common patterns can be identified from two distinct types of end-stage cancer prognosis discussion information, including patient-centered communication and shared decision making data. We applied hierarchical clustering on patient-centered communication measurement data and frequent itemset hierarchical clustering on coded shared decision-making interaction information. Our results suggested modest association between the two data sets in clustering assignments when measuring it with a normalized mutual information index. However, we could not find any noticeable overlap between the two assignments.
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Li, Y., Liu, Y., Kong, N., Shields, C.G. (2016). Clustering Analysis on Patient-Physician Communication and Shared Decision-Making During Cancer Prognosis Discussion. In: Zheng, X., Zeng, D., Chen, H., Leischow, S. (eds) Smart Health. ICSH 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9545. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29175-8_8
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