Fuzziness in healthcare-associated infection monitoring and surveillance

2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Driving Technology's Future, 21CW 2014 - Incorporating the Proceedings of the 2014 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference, NAFIPS 2014, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a,b   Blacky, Alexander ^a   Mandl, Harald ^b   Rappelsberger, Andrea ^a   Koller, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medexter Healthcare GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; Healthcare associated infections; Infection control; Infection reporting; Linguistic and propositional uncertainty; Quality benchmarking

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; HEALTH CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION REPORTING; LINGUISTIC UNCERTAINTY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE;

FUZZY LOGIC;

DATA; DISEASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONITORING; WARE HOUSES;

EID: 84908638591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NORBERT.2014.6893900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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