title: A classification of delivery patient groups using CART (Classification and Regression Trees) for an improvement of critical path.
abstract: Critical Path is able to offer high quality standardized medical treatment. In searching for the better Critical Path (CP) and improving CP, it is necessary to use it continuously. This paper indicates the improvement from two classes of delivery patient groups to five, using data mining method. The data used for analysis is medicine data based on the actual data of delivery patient groups. As a result, it became possible to offer higher quality medical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honda
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009775:Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital; D011247:Pregnancy