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Extraction of Medical Pathways from Electronic Patient Records

Extraction of Medical Pathways from Electronic Patient Records

Dario Antonelli, Elena Baralis, Giulia Bruno, Silvia Chiusano, Naeem A. Mahoto, Caterina Petrigni
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781466624559|ISBN10: 1466624558|EISBN13: 9781466624566
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch051
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Antonelli, Dario, et al. "Extraction of Medical Pathways from Electronic Patient Records." Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 1004-1018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch051

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Antonelli, D., Baralis, E., Bruno, G., Chiusano, S., Mahoto, N. A., & Petrigni, C. (2013). Extraction of Medical Pathways from Electronic Patient Records. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1004-1018). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch051

Chicago

Antonelli, Dario, et al. "Extraction of Medical Pathways from Electronic Patient Records." In Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1004-1018. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch051

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Abstract

With the introduction of electronic medical records, a large amount of patients’ medical data has been available. An actual problem in this domain is to perform reverse engineering of the medical treatment process to highlight medical pathways typically adopted for specific health conditions. This chapter addresses the ability of sequential data mining techniques to reconstruct the actual medical pathways followed by patients. Detected medical pathways are in the form of sets of exams frequently done together, sequences of exam sets frequently followed by patients and frequent correlations between exam sets. The analysis shows that the majority of the extracted pathways are consistent with the medical guidelines, but also reveals some unexpected results, which can be useful both to enrich existing guidelines and to improve the public sanitary service.

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