Analysis by data mining in the emergency medicine triage database at a Taiwanese regional hospital

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11078-11084

  Lin, W T ^a   Wu, Y C ^b   Zheng, J S ^b   Chen, M Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Data mining; Emergency medicine; Rough set; Triage

Indexed keywords

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; MASSIVE DATA; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL SERVICES; OPERATIVE COSTS; ROUGH SET; RULE INDUCTION; TRIAGE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY ROOMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICINE; METADATA; ROUGH SET THEORY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 79955599537     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.152     Document Type: Article

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