Journal
ALGORITHMS
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/a11120199
Keywords
Length of stay; data mining; two-level classifier; healthcare decision support; healthcare management; classification
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Length of stay of hospitalized patients is generally considered to be a significant and critical factor for healthcare policy planning which consequently affects the hospital management plan and resources. Its reliable prediction in the preadmission stage could further assist in identifying abnormality or potential medical risks to trigger additional attention for individual cases. Recently, data mining and machine learning constitute significant tools in the healthcare domain. In this work, we introduce a new decision support software for the accurate prediction of hospitalized patients' length of stay which incorporates a novel two-level classification algorithm. Our numerical experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm exhibits better classification performance than any examined single learning algorithm. The proposed software was developed to provide assistance to the hospital management and strengthen the service system by offering customized assistance according to patients' predicted hospitalization time.
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