Improving scheduling of emergency physicians using data mining analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3378-3387

  Yang, C C ^a   Lin, W T ^b   Chen, H M ^a,c   Shi, Y H ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

6 Sigma; Classification; Data mining; Emergency department; Performance evaluation matrix

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; EMERGENCY ROOMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICINE; PATIENT TREATMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

6-SIGMA; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PATIENTS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL TREATMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MATRIX; UTILIZATION PATTERNS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 56349090865     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.02.069     Document Type: Article

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