Emergency readmission criterion: A technique for determining the emergency readmission time window

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 644-649

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency readmission; Mixture distribution; Time window

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; TABLE LOOKUP;

EMERGENCY READMISSION; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME WINDOW; TIME WINDOWS;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 51749096921     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.911311     Document Type: Article

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