title: The use of KDD to identify eligible patients for case management programs.
abstract: Patients diagnosed with co-morbidities are clinically compromised, facing social and psychological challenges. The identification of high risk patients is a key question to maximize their quality of life and the Health System's resources.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to determine patterns that identify eligible patients for Case Management Programs, with KDD and AI tools.
  
  
  METHODS
  analysis, selection and correction, formatting and mining of data, analysis of results, data submission to an AI tool.
  
  
  RESULTS
  solid recommendations on benefits that Health Systems could obtain by using these tools, regarding the acknowledgement of their users profile and the use of predictive modeling.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. kobus.1@pucpr.br
authors.forename: Luciana Schleder Gonçalves
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Kobus
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Honorato
authors.forename: João
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: da Silva Dias
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D019090:Case Management; D015897:Comorbidity; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection