Exploratory Clustering for Emergency Department Patients.


Journal

Studies in health technology and informatics
ISSN: 1879-8365
Titre abrégé: Stud Health Technol Inform
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9214582

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
29 Jun 2022
Historique:
entrez: 1 7 2022
pubmed: 2 7 2022
medline: 6 7 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is an increasing global problem raising safety concerns for the patients. Elaborating an effective triage system that properly separates patients requiring hospital admission remains difficult. The objective of this study was to compare a clustering-related technique assignment of emergency department patients with the admission output using the k-means algorithm. Incorporating such a model into triage practice could theoretically shorten waiting times and reduce ED overcrowding.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35773921
pii: SHTI220775
doi: 10.3233/SHTI220775
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

503-506

Auteurs

Georgios Feretzakis (G)

School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.
Department of Quality Control, Research and Continuing Education, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Aikaterini Sakagianni (A)

IT department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Dimitris Kalles (D)

School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

Evangelos Loupelis (E)

Intensive Care Unit, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Lazaros Tzelves (L)

Second Department of Urology, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Vasileios Panteris (V)

Gastroenterology Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Rea Chatzikyriakou (R)

Hematology Laboratory, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Nikolaos Trakas (N)

Biochemistry Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Stavroula Kolokytha (S)

Emergency Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Polyxeni Batiani (P)

Emergency Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Zoi Rakopoulou (Z)

Administration, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Aikaterini Tika (A)

Administration, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Stavroula Petropoulou (S)

IT department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Ilias Dalainas (I)

Administration, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

Vasileios Kaldis (V)

Emergency Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Marousi, Greece.

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