Text Mining Techniques for Healthcare Provider Quality Determination: Methods for Rank Comparisons (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781605667522)

The quest for quality in healthcare has led to attempts to develop models to determine which providers have the highest quality in healthcare, with the best outcomes for patients. Text Mining Techniques for Healthcare Provider Quality Determination: Methods for Rank Comparisons discusses the general practice of defining a patient severity index in order to make risk adjustments to compare patient outcomes across multiple providers with the intent of ranking the providers in terms of quality. This innovative reference source, valuable to medical practitioners, researchers, and academicians, brings together research from across the globe focusing on how severity indices are generally defined when determining the best outcome for patient care.

Author: Patricia Cerrito
ISBN-10: 1605667528
ISBN-13: 9781605667522
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2009
Pages: 412
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.16lbs
Size: 11.34h x 8.52w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2009 pg. 74