Modeling and estimating the spatial distribution of healthcare workers

IHI'10 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 287-296

  Curtis, Donald E ^a   Hlady, Christopher S ^a   Pemmaraju, Sriram V ^a   Segre, Alberto M ^a   Polgreen, Philip M ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic medical records; social networks; spatial distributions

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; ACTIVITY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; HEALTHCARE WORKERS; HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION; MEDICAL CENTER; METRIC SPACES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTION; RANDOM WALK; REAL-WORLD; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL MODELS; SUPPORTING TIME; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA;

ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; HEURISTIC METHODS; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TOPOLOGY;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78650960514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882992.1883034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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