Clinical data mining for physician decision making and investigating health outcomes methods for prediction and analysis /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Cerrito, John, 1954-, Cerrito, Patricia B.
• Format: Electronic
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2010.
• Subjects: Medical informatics.; Data mining.; Evidence-based medicine > Data processing.; Data Mining.; Medical Informatics Computing.; Database Management Systems.; Decision Making.; Evidence-Based Medicine.; Preprocessing of large, healthcare databases; Use of data mining techniques to investigate data; Time series methods; Dealing with large datasets; Patient compliance; Co-morbidities; Defining patient severity indices; Estimating probabilities of treatment outcomes; Relationship between treatment and outcome; Improving patient care
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (351 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781615209064 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

The investigation of healthcare databases can be used to examine physician decisions and develop evidence-based treatment guidelines that optimize patient outcomes. This book demonstrates how concern for detail in datasets and the use of data mining techniques can extract important and meaningful knowledge from healthcare databases. Basic information on processing data with step-by-step instructions is provided, allowing readers to use their own data and follow the instructions to find meaningful results.