02224nam a2200313Ia 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000170006502000240008202000210010603500240012704000470015104200080019805000250020606000270023108200230025824501680028126000630044930000300051250000400054250400510058250508930063352002130152665000310173965000530177065000230182370000320184670000320187831309020160527190835.0130316s2010    paua     b    001 0 eng    a  2010006306  a9781615209057 (h/c)  a1615209050 (h/c)  a(OCoLC)ocn540015684  aDNLM/DLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdNLMdDLC  apcc00aR859.7.D36bC47 201010aW 26.55.I4bC6415 201000a610.285bC641322200aClinical data mining for physician decision making and investigating health outcomesbmethods for prediction and analysiscPatricia Cerrito, John Cerrito, editors.  aHershey, PAbMedical Information Science Referencecc2010.  axiv, 356 p.bill.c29 cm.  a"Premier Reference Source" --Cover.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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.  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. 0aMedical informatics2Local 0aEvidence-Based MedicinexData processing.2Local 0aData mining2Local1 aCerrito, Patricia B.2Local1 aCerrito, Johnd1954-2Local