Process mining for clinical processes: A comparative analysis of four australian hospitals

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Partington, Andrew ^a   Wynn, Moe ^b   Suriadi, Suriadi ^b   Ouyang, Chun ^b   Karnon, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Data preparation; Health care delivery; Patient pathways; Process mining

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS;

BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL; DATA PREPARATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PATHWAYS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROCESS MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84925629090     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2629446     Document Type: Article

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