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Deveolping clinical pathways of acute appendicitis patients in emergency room  

Park, Cheol-Yong (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Kim, Yoon-Nyun (Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keimyung University)
Choi, Hyun-Seok (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Shin, A-Mi (Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Keimyung University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.21, no.3, 2010 , pp. 427-435 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we develop clinical pathways for test and medical treatment items of acute appendicitis patients in emergency room. In order to develop the clinical pathways, we first employ the order selection method by Park et al. (2010), and then display the selected orders in such a way that associated orders are tied together. More specifically the order selection method that we employ is based on lift and, starting from the orders with higher frequencies, sequentially removes the negatively associated orders with lift values less than 0.9. The way associated orders are selected and tied together is similar to that of the order selection method. More specifically, starting from the selected orders with higher frequencies, the orders with lift values greater than 1.1 are considered associated and displayed to the right of the corresponding order. Therefore, in the diagram of clinical pathways, the orders at the left hand side, in principle, are not associated with each other and upper orders have higher frequencies, and associated orders are located to the right of corresponding order at the left hand side and more left orders, in principle, have higher frequencies.
Keywords
Acute appendicitis; clinical pathway; lift; order selection;
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