Clinical data mining for physician decision making and investigating health outcomes : methods for prediction and analysis / Patricia Cerrito, John Cerrito.

Author/creator Cerrito, Patricia B.
Other author Cerrito, John, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoHershey, PA : Medical Information Science Reference, ©2010.
Descriptionxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects

Contents Preprocessing the data -- Errors and missing values in the dataset -- Introduction to the use of MEPS (medical expenditure panel survey) -- Preprocessing Medpar data -- Extracting data from the national inpatient sample -- Creating a one-to-one relationship in the data from a many-to-many -- Merging different datasets to allow for a complete analysis (inpatient, outpatient, physician visits, medications) -- Introduction to analysis using time components -- More survival data mining of multiple time of endpoints -- Using the data to define patient compliance -- Compression of diagnosis and procedure codes -- Comparisons of patient severity indices -- Decision trees and their development : use of data to determine the quality of care -- Example of diabetes using CMS data -- Example of breathing illness, asthma and COPD using MEPS data -- Example of wound care using Medpar data.
Abstract "This book shows how the investigation of healthcare databases can be used to examine physician decisions to develop evidence-based treatment guidelines that optimize patient outcomes"--Provided by publisher.
Local noteLaupus-WCP
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010006306
ISBN9781615209057 (h/c)
ISBN1615209050 (h/c)