title: Understanding variations in pediatric asthma care processes in the emergency department using visual analytics.
abstract: Health care delivery processes consist of complex activity sequences spanning organizational, spatial, and temporal boundaries. Care is human-directed so these processes can have wide variations in cost, quality, and outcome making systemic care process analysis, conformance testing, and improvement challenging. We designed and developed an interactive visual analytic process exploration and discovery tool and used it to explore clinical data from 5784 pediatric asthma emergency department patients.
authors: School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA basole@gatech.edu.
authors: Rahul C
authors: RC
authors: Basole
authors: School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Mark L
authors: ML
authors: Braunstein
authors: Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Vikas
authors: V
authors: Kumar
authors: Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Hyunwoo
authors: H
authors: Park
authors: School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Minsuk
authors: M
authors: Kahng
authors: School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Duen Horng Polo
authors: DH
authors: Chau
authors: School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Acar
authors: A
authors: Tamersoy
authors: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates, LLC, Atlanta, GA 30342, USA.
authors: Daniel A
authors: DA
authors: Hirsh
authors: School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors: Nicoleta
authors: N
authors: Serban
authors: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Bost
authors: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
authors: Burton
authors: B
authors: Lesnick
authors: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates, LLC, Atlanta, GA 30342, USA.
authors: Beth L
authors: BL
authors: Schissel
authors: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Thompson
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003626:Data Display; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010346:Patient Care Management; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: asthma; emergency care; pediatric hospital; process mining; visual analytics
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