It is our interest in writing this book to demonstrate how concern for details in the datasets, and the use of data mining techniques can extract important and meaningful knowledge from the data. We anticipate that this knowledge can be used to improve patient care.
– Patricia and John Cerrito
This book is a valuable contribution, which will help researchers understand issues related to research using large healthcare databases. I'm not aware of other books that cover these important topics and provide such detailed analytic examples. As far as the book's usefulness to researchers with SAS experience who are working with administrative healthcare databases, it is an excellent resource, and I plan to add it to my library.
– Ryan M Carnahan, Pharm.D., M.S., University of Iowa College of Public Health, Doody's Book Review
If you are a researcher or healthcare professional interested in exploring MEPS, the National Inpatient Sample or Medpar databases, have access to SAS Enterprise Guide and Enterprise Miner, and are interested in learning about how data mining tools can be applied to extract knowledge from these specific databases, then you should consider buying this book.
– Fernando Bacao, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Online Information Review