Applying cluster analysis to build a patient-centric healthcare service strategy for elderly patients.
Bor-Wen ChengChih-Ming LuoWen-Hong ChiuKuan-Hua ChenPublished in: Int. J. Technol. Manag. (2009)
Keyphrases
- cluster analysis
- home care
- health care services
- health care
- chronic disease
- patient data
- health records
- medical care
- clinical trials
- categorical data
- clustering method
- health related
- health care providers
- data mining
- medical devices
- electronic health records
- clustering algorithm
- electronic medical record
- medical data
- primary care
- k means
- patient care
- medical records
- data analysis
- hierarchical latent class models
- hospital discharge
- medical practitioners
- data mining techniques
- unsupervised learning
- clinical decision support
- clinical data
- fuzzy c means
- hospital information systems
- cluster validity
- correlation analysis
- high risk
- care delivery
- healthcare professionals
- older adults
- health status
- healthcare delivery
- latent variables
- pairwise
- patient records