title: A collaborative international nursing informatics research project: predicting ARDS risk in critically ill patients.
abstract: An international nursing informatics research collaboration between Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA and Allgemeine Krankenhaus Hospital in Vienna, Austria used data mining techniques called Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) to explore the relationship between clinical data variables and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in critically ill patients. Results of the study and logistics of international research collaboration will be presented at NI '97. The conceptual model, data mining methodology, and objectives for the collaboration are described here.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saville
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jasion
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prather
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dobousek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Egger
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D009657:North Carolina; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000451:nursing*