Mining the preferences of patients for ubiquitous clinic recommendation.

A challenge facing all ubiquitous clinic recommendation systems is that patients often have difficulty articulating their requirements. To overcome this problem, a ubiquitous clinic recommendation mechanism was designed in this study by mining the clinic preferences of patients. Their preferences we...

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Publicado en:Health Care Management Science Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 173 - 185
Autores principales: Chen, Tin-Chih Toly, Chiu, Min-Chi
Formato: algorithm equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2020
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          Chen, Tin-Chih Toly
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          Ambulatory Care Facilities Administration
          Patient Satisfaction
          Appointments and Schedules
          Time Factors
          Data Mining Methods
          Chaos Theory
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      ab: A challenge facing all ubiquitous clinic recommendation systems is that patients often have difficulty articulating their requirements. To overcome this problem, a ubiquitous clinic recommendation mechanism was designed in this study by mining the clinic preferences of patients. Their preferences were defined using the weights in the ubiquitous clinic recommendation mechanism. An integer nonlinear programming problem was solved to tune the values of the weights on a rolling basis. In addition, since it may take a long time to adjust the values of weights to their asymptotic values, the back propagation network (BPN)-response surface method (RSM) method is applied to estimate the asymptotic values of weights. The proposed methodology was tested in a regional study. Experimental results indicated that the ubiquitous clinic recommendation system outperformed several existing methods in improving the successful recommendation rate.
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