Logistic-based patient grouping for multi-disciplinary treatment

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 87-107

  Mǎruşter, Laura ^a   Weijters, Ton ^a   De Vries, Geerhard ^a,d   Van Den Bosch, Antal ^b   Daelemans, Walter ^b,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d Prismant Health Care and Advise Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clustering; Logistic management; Patient classification systems; Rule induction

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES;

CLUSTERING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0036755096     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(02)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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