With the healthcare industry becoming increasingly more competitive, there exists a need for medical institutions to improve both the efficiency and the quality of their services. In order to do so, it is important to investigate how statistical models can be used to study health outcomes.Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining: Studies and Frameworks provides several case studies developed by faculty and graduates of the University of Louisvilles PhD program in Applied and Industrial Mathematics. The studies in this book use non-traditional, exploratory data analysis and data mining tools to examine health outcomes, finding patterns and trends in observational data. This book is ideal for the next generation of data mining practitioners.
Author(s): Patricia Cerrito
Series: Premier Reference Source
Edition: 1
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 464
Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining:Studies and Frameworks......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgment......Page 21
Introduction to Data Mining Methodology to Investigate Health Outcomes......Page 22
Data Mining to Examine theTreatment of Osteomyelitis......Page 36
Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Procedures......Page 68
Outcomes Research in the Treatment of Asthma......Page 99
Analysis of Breast Cancer and Surgery as Treatment Options......Page 121
Data Mining and Analysis of Lung Cancer......Page 139
Outcomes Research in Physical Therapy......Page 166
Analyzing the Relationship between Diagnosis and the Cost of Diabetic Patients......Page 194
An Example of Defining Patient Compliance......Page 218
Outcomes Research in Gastrointestinal Treatment......Page 239
Outcomes Research in Hydrocephalus Treatment......Page 246
Analyzing Problems of Childhood and Adolescence......Page 266
Healthcare Delivery in a Hospital Emergency Department......Page 296
Utilization of the Emergency Department......Page 326
Physician Prescribing Practices......Page 348
Cost Models with Prominent Outliers......Page 389
The Relationship between Sleep Apnea and Cognitive Functioning......Page 420
Compilation of References......Page 441
About the Contributors......Page 455
Index......Page 457
