Unsupervised DRG upcoding detection in healthcare databases

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 600-605

  Luo, Wei ^a   Gallagher, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision tree; DRG upcoding; Fisher's exact test; Healthcare data

Indexed keywords

AUDIT DATA; DATA SETS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DRG UPCODING; EXACT TESTS; UNSUPERVISED ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES;

FILTRATION;

EID: 79951748358     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2010.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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