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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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 10, 3 (2006).
Main Author:	Shaw, B.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Bayesian network theory. Costing. Geriatric inpatients. Graphical representation. Health care. Hospital costs. Medical services planning. Patients clinical variables. Probabilistic representation. Stochastic processes. Survival analysis.