Hybrid Algorithm Applied to the Identification of Risk Factors on the Health of Newly Born in Mexico

Identification Of Risk Factors During Pregnancy

Nowadays in medicine like in any other science, the use of computational tools to make a better use of data gathered about a specific phenomenon results essential. Pediatrician from all over the world have always had the need to be well informed about maternal antecedents and previous and actual obstetric record, when acquire the responsibility of a new patient (Hobel, Hyvarinen, Okada, & Oh, 1973); therefore, many researchers have focused on the identification of risk factors of neonatal mortality, stillbirth and morbidity, in order to improve prognosis and to prevent complications.

This work has the goal of identify the features that impact the most on the health state of the newly born, identify the features that are less important and the ones that can be ignore; giving to medical staff a decision support tool to intervene opportunely during pregnancy.

Manipulated data is the result of a transverse study with a sample of 701 pregnancy cases assisted on the zone no.1 with familiar medicine of the Mexican Institute of Social Security and hospitals 1, 2, 5, 7, 45 and 49 in the city of San Luis Potosí, México on 1999 (Torres, 1999).

Initially data base was discretized according to medical literature. Table 1 shows the general conditions of the sample mentioned before.