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008 100302s2010 paua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781615209057 (h/c)
020 $a1615209050 (h/c)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn540015684
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050 00 $aR859.7.D36$bC47 2010
060 10 $aW 26.55.I4$bC6415 2010
082 00 $a610.285$222
100 1 $aCerrito, Patricia B.
245 10 $aClinical data mining for physician decision making and investigating health outcomes :$bmethods for prediction and analysis /$cPatricia Cerrito, John Cerrito.
260 $aHershey, PA :$bMedical Information Science Reference,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 356 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreprocessing 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.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aMedical informatics.
650 0 $aData mining.
650 0 $aEvidence-based medicine$xData processing.
650 12 $aData Mining.
650 12 $aMedical Informatics Computing.
650 22 $aDatabase Management Systems.
650 22 $aDecision Making.
650 22 $aEvidence-Based Medicine.
700 1 $aCerrito, John,$d1954-