Use of data mining techniques to determine and predict length of stay of cardiac patients

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-129

  Hachesu, Peyman Rezaei ^a   Ahmadi, Maryam ^a   Alizadeh, Somayyeh ^b   Sadoughi, Farahnaz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary Artery Disease; Data Mining; Extract; Length of Stay; Patients

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880061591     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2013.19.2.121     Document Type: Article

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