Title
Patients' Admissions in Intensive Care Units: A Clustering Overview
Abstract
Intensive Care is one of the most critical areas ofmedicine. Its multidisciplinary nature makes it a very wide area, requiring all types of healthcare professionals. Given the criticalenvironment of intensive care units, it becomes evident the need touse technology of decision support systems to improve healthcareservices and Intensive Care Units management. By discovering thecommon characteristics of the admitted patients it is possible toimprove these outcomes. In this study clustering techniques wereapplied to data collected from admitted patients in Intensive CareUnit. The best results presented a Silhouette of 1, with a distance tocentroids of 6.2e-17 and a Davies-Bouldin index of -0.652.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CBI.2016.48
2016 IEEE 18th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data mining,clustering,intensive care,admissions,INTCare
Journal
02
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
2378-1963
978-1-5090-3232-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Ribeiro100.34
Filipe Portela217744.10
Manuel Filipe Santos336068.91
José Machado48332.46
António Abelha524357.30
Fernando Rua67815.32