Mining Nurse Care Data: A Study Case on Pressure Ulcer Prediction

The possibility of extracting useful medical information from data collected by nurses for management purposes is investigated. An alternating decision tree for predicting pressure ulcer development is generated from nursing needs score data (NNS) usually recorded in Japanese hospitals.

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