With the introduction of electronic medical records, a large amount of patients’ medical data has been available. An actual problem in this domain is to perform reverse engineering of the medical treatment process to highlight medical pathways typically adopted for specific health conditions. This chapter addresses the ability of sequential data mining techniques to reconstruct the actual medical pathways followed by patients. Detected medical pathways are in the form of sets of exams frequently done together, sequences of exam sets frequently followed by patients and frequent correlations between exam sets. The analysis shows that the majority of the extracted pathways are consistent with the medical guidelines, but also reveals some unexpected results, which can be useful both to enrich existing guidelines and to improve the public sanitary service.

Extraction of medical pathways from electronic patient records / Antonelli, Dario; Baralis, ELENA MARIA; Bruno, Giulia; Chiusano, SILVIA ANNA; Mahoto, NAEEM AHMED; Petrigni, Caterina - In: Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis: Research Advancements / Rafael Magdalena-Benedito, Emilio Soria, Juan Guerrero Martínez, Juan Gómez-Sanchis, Antonio Jose Serrano-López. - STAMPA. - [s.l] : Information Science Reference (IGI Global), 2012. - ISBN 9781466618039. - pp. 273-289 [10.4018/978-1-4666-1803-9.ch018]

Extraction of medical pathways from electronic patient records

ANTONELLI, DARIO;BARALIS, ELENA MARIA;BRUNO, GIULIA;CHIUSANO, SILVIA ANNA;MAHOTO, NAEEM AHMED;PETRIGNI, CATERINA
2012

Abstract

With the introduction of electronic medical records, a large amount of patients’ medical data has been available. An actual problem in this domain is to perform reverse engineering of the medical treatment process to highlight medical pathways typically adopted for specific health conditions. This chapter addresses the ability of sequential data mining techniques to reconstruct the actual medical pathways followed by patients. Detected medical pathways are in the form of sets of exams frequently done together, sequences of exam sets frequently followed by patients and frequent correlations between exam sets. The analysis shows that the majority of the extracted pathways are consistent with the medical guidelines, but also reveals some unexpected results, which can be useful both to enrich existing guidelines and to improve the public sanitary service.
2012
9781466618039
Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis: Research Advancements
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