A data mining approach in home healthcare: Outcomes and service use

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Madigan, Elizabeth A ^a   Curet, Olivier Louis ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; AFTERCARE; ALGORITHM; DECISION TREE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AFTERCARE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33644870106     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-18     Document Type: Article

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