Developing a Bayesian belief network for the management of geriatric hospital care.
Health Care Manag Sci
; 4(1): 25-30, 2001 Feb.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11315882
ABSTRACT
Resource management is an essential feature of hospital management. This is especially true for geriatric services, as older people often have complex medical and social needs. Hospital management should benefit from an explanatory model that provides predictions of duration of stay and destination on discharge. We describe how a Bayesian belief network models the behaviour of geriatric patients using predictive variables personal details, admission reasons and dependency levels. This approach is illustrated using data on 4,722 patients admitted to geriatric medicine at St. George's Hospital, London; distributions of the patient outcome given typical values of the predictive variables are provided.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Avaliação de Processos e Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde
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Avaliação Geriátrica
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Teorema de Bayes
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Hospitais Públicos
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Tempo de Internação
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Care Manag Sci
Assunto da revista:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article