Modeling the Health Care Costs of Geriatric Inpatients.

Modeling the Health Care Costs of Geriatric Inpatients.

This paper extends a method for modeling the survival of patients in hospitals to allow the expected cost to be estimated for the patients' accumulated duration of time in care. An extension of Bayesian network (BN) theory has previously been developed to model patients' survival time in h...

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Yayımlandı:IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 10, 3 (2006).
Yazar: Shaw, B.
Materyal Türü: Makale
Dil:English
Konular:
Bayesian network theory.
Costing.
Geriatric inpatients.
Graphical representation.
Health care.
Hospital costs.
Medical services planning.
Patients clinical variables.
Probabilistic representation.
Stochastic processes.
Survival analysis.