Intelligent bionic genetic algorithm (IB-GA) and its convergence
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Structure of Multi-Stage Composite Genetic Algorithm (MSC-GA) and its performance
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An enhanced model framework of personalized material flow services
Information Technology and Management
Constructing a decision support system for management of employee turnover risk
Information Technology and Management
Editorial: Advances of operations research in service industry
Computers and Operations Research
A 3PL supplier selection model based on fuzzy sets
Computers and Operations Research
Improving user experience with case-based reasoning systems using text mining and Web 2.0
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers in Human Behavior
Relaxed constraints support vector machine
Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
Machine Learning
Hi-index | 0.01 |
Recommender systems have been extensively studied to present items, such as movies, music and books that are likely of interest to the user. Researchers have indicated that integrated medical information systems are becoming an essential part of the modern healthcare systems. Such systems have evolved to an integrated enterprise-wide system. In particular, such systems are considered as a type of enterprise information systems or ERP system addressing healthcare industry sector needs. As part of efforts, nursing care plan recommender systems can provide clinical decision support, nursing education, clinical quality control, and serve as a complement to existing practice guidelines. We propose to use correlations among nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions to create a recommender system for constructing nursing care plans. In the current study, we used nursing diagnosis data to develop the methodology. Our system utilises a prefix-tree structure common in itemset mining to construct a ranked list of suggested care plan items based on previously-entered items. Unlike common commercial systems, our system makes sequential recommendations based on user interaction, modifying a ranked list of suggested items at each step in care plan construction. We rank items based on traditional association-rule measures such as support and confidence, as well as a novel measure that anticipates which selections might improve the quality of future rankings. Since the multi-step nature of our recommendations presents problems for traditional evaluation measures, we also present a new evaluation method based on average ranking position and use it to test the effectiveness of different recommendation strategies.