Discovering subgroups using descriptive models of adverse outcomes in medical care

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 348-352

  Stiglic, Gregor ^a   Kokol, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Data mining; Descriptive trees; Subgroup discovery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84864857832     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME11-02-0040     Document Type: Article

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