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JSW 2014 Vol.9(10): 2764-2770 ISSN: 1796-217X
doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.10.2764-2770

Analysis of Abnormality Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine by Integrating K-means and Decision Trees-a Case Study of Dongyang People’s Hospital in China

Zhong Lv1, Jinkan Du1, Wen-Tsann Lin2, Shen-Tsu Wang3, Chia-Ching Chang2, Meng-Hua Li4, Zheng-Han Zhuang3

1Dongyang Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Dongyang, China
2National Chin-Yi University of Technology/Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering & Management, Taiwan, R.O.C
3National Pingtung Institute of Commerce /Department of Commerce Automation and Management, Taiwan, R.O.C
4Taiwan Shoufu University/Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Taiwan, R.O.C


Abstract—The performance of a triage system can facilitate patient classification in an emergency department, enabling patients in critical condition to receive better medical care; therefore, more perfect allocation and use of resources of emergency medical treatment are required. The correctness of nurses and doctors is related to triage medical care quality, patient satisfaction, and life safety. Hence, how to effectively extract experience by data mining and triage in the background of continuously increasing numbers of emergency patients is an issue worth exploring. Based on the case of Dongyang People’s Hospital in China, this study established a triage prediction model from process construction, parameter selection, and sampling, and randomly generated 501 samples of patients from the emergency database for cluster analysis (Ward’s method and K-means) and decision trees analysis upon data mining. The findings of this study show that the triage categorization of nurses is higher than that of doctors and most abnormal diagnoses occur to patients not examined on the date of admittance. The vital signs of pulse and temperature are more discerning. According to the confidence and support proportion, this study proposed seven association rules.

Index Terms—emergency department; triage medical care quality; data mining; K-means; decision tree

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Cite: Zhong Lv, Jinkan Du, Wen-Tsann Lin, Shen-Tsu Wang, Chia-Ching Chang, Meng-Hua Li, Zheng-Han Zhuang, "Analysis of Abnormality Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine by Integrating K-means and Decision Trees-a Case Study of Dongyang People’s Hospital in China," Journal of Software vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 2764-2770, 2014.

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ISSN: 1796-217X (Online)
Frequency:  Quarterly
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Antanas Verikas
Executive Editor: Ms. Yoyo Y. Zhou
Abstracting/ Indexing: DBLP, EBSCO, CNKIGoogle Scholar, ProQuest, INSPEC(IET), ULRICH's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, etc
E-mail: jsweditorialoffice@gmail.com
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