Mining time dependency patterns in clinical pathways
Clinical pathways are widely adopted by many large hospitals around the world in order to provide high-quality patient treatment and reduce the length of hospital stay of each patient.The development of clinical pathways is a lengthy process,and may require the collaboration among physicians,nurses,and staffs in a hospital.However,the individual differences cause great variances in the execution of clinical pathways.It calls for a more dynamic and adaptive process to improve the performance of clinical pathways.This paper reports a data mining technique we have developed to discover the time dependency pattern of clinical pathways for managing brain stroke.The mining of time dependency pattern is to discover patterns of process execution sequences and to identify the dependent relation between activities in a majority of cases.By obtaining the time dependency patterns,we can predict the paths for new patients when he/she is admitted into a hospital; in turn,the health care procedure will be more effective and efficient.? 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.All rights reserved.
Clinical pathways Data mining Time dependency pattern Association Sequence pattern
Fu-ren Lin Shien-chao Chou Shung-mei Pan Yao-mei Chen
Department of Information Management,National Sun Yat-sen University,Kaohsiung 804,Taiwan,ROC Department of Nursing,Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital of Kaohsiung Medical University,Kaohsiung,Taiwan,RO
国内会议
南京
英文
1-15
2013-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）