A model-based approach to the analysis of patterns of length of stay in institutional long-term care

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 512-518

  Xie, Haifeng ^a   Chaussalet, Thierry J ^a   Millard, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covariate; Length of stay analysis; Long term care; Markov model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIAL CARE; LENGTH-OF-STAY ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CARE; MARKOV MODEL; SOCIAL CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746917953     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.863820     Document Type: Article

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