Intelligent analysis of acute bed overflow in a tertiary hospital in Singapore

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1873-1882

  Teow, Kiok Liang ^a   El Darzi, Elia ^b   Foo, Cynthia ^c   Jin, Xin ^c   Sim, Joe ^c  

^a NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Data mining; Decision tree; Hospital bed; Logistic regression; Overflow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA MINING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SINGAPORE; SPECIALIZATION; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84864029318     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9646-1     Document Type: Article

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