A Clinical Support System Based on Quality of Life Estimation.

Quality of life is a concept influenced by social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state factors. More specifically, the perceived quality of an individual's daily life is an assessment of their well-being or lack of it. In this context, information technologies may help on the managem...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 39; no. 10; pp. 1 - 12
Autores principales: Faria, Brígida, Gonçalves, Joaquim, Reis, Luis, Rocha, Álvaro
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Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2015
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          Gonçalves, Joaquim
          Reis, Luis
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          Quality of Life Evaluation
          Decision Support Systems, Clinical
          Neoplasms Psychosocial Factors
          Neoplasms Therapy
          Information Technology
          Data Mining
          Algorithms
          Human
          Descriptive Statistics
          P-Value
          Smoking
          Neoplasms Classification
          Knowledge Management
          Electronic Health Records
          Quality-Adjusted Life Years
          Systems Design
          Rasch Analysis
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      ab: Quality of life is a concept influenced by social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state factors. More specifically, the perceived quality of an individual's daily life is an assessment of their well-being or lack of it. In this context, information technologies may help on the management of services for healthcare of chronic patients such as estimating the patient quality of life and helping the medical staff to take appropriate measures to increase each patient quality of life. This paper describes a Quality of Life estimation system developed using information technologies and the application of data mining algorithms to access the information of clinical data of patients with cancer from Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck services of an oncology institution. The system was evaluated with a sample composed of 3013 patients. The results achieved show that there are variables that may be significant predictors for the Quality of Life of the patient: years of smoking ( p value 0.049) and size of the tumor ( p value < 0.001). In order to assign the variables to the classification of the quality of life the best accuracy was obtained by applying the John Platt's sequential minimal optimization algorithm for training a support vector classifier. In conclusion data mining techniques allow having access to patients additional information helping the physicians to be able to know the quality of life and produce a well-informed clinical decision.
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