A system for patient management based discrete-event simulation and hierarchical clustering

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 800-804

  Codrington Virtue, Anthony ^a   Chaussalet, Thierry ^a   Millard, Peter ^a   Whittlestone, Paul ^b   Kelly, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RKW Healthcare Strategist   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT TOOLS; PATIENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY TESTING; SIMULATION MODELS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 33845566510     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2006.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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