Applying classification trees to hospital administrative data to identify patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Siddique, Juned ^a   Ruhnke, Gregory W ^b   Flores, Andrea ^b   Prochaska, Micah T ^b   Paesch, Elizabeth ^b   Meltzer, David O ^b   Whelan, Chad T ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; AGED; ALGORITHM; HOSPITALIZATION; ILLINOIS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHICAGO; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84947255106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138987     Document Type: Article

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