From: A systematic review of the clinical application of data-driven population segmentation analysis
Population selection | No. of studies | Examples |
---|---|---|
Without specific diseases/conditions | 163 | A nationally representative sample of adults aged 18Â years and over in Ireland [15] |
With specific diseases/conditions | 53 | Â |
 Patients with psychological conditions | 12 | US adults who were diagnosed with lifetime post-traumatic stress disorder in wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions [16] |
 Patients with cancer | 9 | Consecutive referrals with a diagnosis of non-curable cancer to the Palliative Medicine Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation [67] |
 Patients with respiratory conditions | 8 | Children 6–17 years of age who underwent standardized characterization in Severe Asthma Research Program [68] |
 Patients with heart diseases | 5 | Elderly patients admitted with ischemic coronary heart disease and recruited in a clinical trial [69] |
 Patients with HIV positive status | 3 | A random stratified sample of HIV/AIDS patients recruited in French hospital departments delivering HIV care [70] |
 Patients with gastrointestinal conditions | 3 | Patients with intractable irritable bowel syndrome enrolled in a randomised controlled trial [71] |
 Others | 13 |  |
Sample Size | ||
  < =500 | 49 |  |
 501–1000 | 41 |  |
 1001-10,000 | 87 |  |
 10,001–100,000 | 24 |  |
  > =100,001 | 10 |  |
 N.A. | 5 |  |
Country/Region | ||
 Multiple countries | 11 |  |
 North America | 122 |  |
  US | 109 |  |
  Canada | 13 |  |
 Europe | 60 |  |
  UK | 24 |  |
  Other European countries | 36 |  |
 Asia | 13 |  |
 Oceanian | 8 |  |
 Africa | 2 |  |