Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications
Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications
Information Technology in the Future of Health Care
Journal of Medical Systems
Mini Medical Record Application: Annual Register for Flu Shot Vaccinations
Journal of Medical Systems
Intelligent Analysis of Acute Bed Overflow in a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore
Journal of Medical Systems
A medical procedure-based patient grouping method for an emergency department
Applied Soft Computing
Review: Knowledge discovery in medicine: Current issue and future trend
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Spiraling health care costs in the United States are driving institutions to continually address the challenge of optimizing the use of scarce resources. One of the first steps towards optimizing resources is to utilize capacity effectively. For hospital capacity planning problems such as allocation of inpatient beds, computer simulation is often the method of choice. One of the more difficult aspects of using simulation models for such studies is the creation of a manageable set of patient types to include in the model. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of using data mining techniques, specifically clustering techniques such as K-means, to help guide the development of patient type definitions for purposes of building computer simulation or analytical models of patient flow in hospitals. Using data from a hospital in the Midwest this study brings forth several important issues that researchers need to address when applying clustering techniques in general and specifically to hospital data.