Using data mining techniques to predict hospitalization of hemodialysis patients

  • Authors:
  • Jinn-Yi Yeh;Tai-Hsi Wu;Chuan-Wei Tsao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Management Information Systems, National Chiayi University, Taiwan;Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, Taiwan;Department of Management Information Systems, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Hemodialysis patients might suffer from unhealthy care behaviors or long-term dialysis treatments and need to be hospitalized. If the hospitalization rate of a hemodialysis center is high, its service quality will be low. Therefore, decreasing hospitalization rate is a crucial problem for health care centers. This study combines temporal abstraction with data mining techniques for analyzing dialysis patients' biochemical data to develop a decision support system. The mined temporal patterns are helpful for clinicians to predict hospitalization of hemodialysis patients and to suggest immediate treatments to avoid hospitalization.