A process mining-based investigation of adverse events in care processes

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-25

  Caron, Filip ^a   Vanthienen, Jan ^a   Vanhaecht, Kris ^a,b,c   Van Limbergen, Erik ^d   Deweerdt, Jochen ^a,e   Baesens, Bart ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Center for Health Services and Nursing Research School of Public Health Leuven   (Norway)

^c European Pathway Association   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical pathways; Hospital information systems; Information storage and retrieval; Medical informatics; Quality of healthcare

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DATA MINING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DATA MINING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84902206561     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183335831404300103     Document Type: Article

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