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Profiling Patients with Chronic Ulcers Using K-Means Clustering and Analysis of the Impact on the Consumption of Medical Resources: Retrospective Study on Hospitalized Patients in Romania

2025-07-28

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Chronic ulcers are a major public health problem, associated with increased morbidity, impairment of quality of life and significant costs for health systems. In the context of the aging population and the increase in the incidence of chronic predisposing diseases, this study aims to profile hospitalized patients with chronic ulcers in Romania and to differentiate the consumption of medical resources. A retrospect...

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Literature Corpus work: d1faea6b-7dde-5b04-ad21-e6fa1c8edbbd
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202507.2237.v1

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