title: Analysis of patient flows via data mining.
abstract: The paper presents DoMiner, a data mining tool for the analysis of patient flows among public hospitals and care units. DoMiner is based on the theory of rough sets, and allows for the extraction of association rules from data base tables. The paper describes both the clustering and rule extraction algorithm of DoMiner, and illustrates an introductory analysis example.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, 20135 Milano, Italy. Pagnoni@dsi.unimi.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pagnoni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lombardo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D010351:Patient Discharge