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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications
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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, Gary Miner
May 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
864 pages
23h 13m
English
Elsevier Science
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Tutorial I

Business Administration in a Medical Industry

Determining Possible Predictors for Days with Hospice Service for Patients with Dementia

Linda A. Miner, Ph.D., James Ross, MD and Karen James, RN, BSN, CHPN

Medicare has a set of guidelines for hospices for admitting patients with dementias to their care. The ideal number of days with the service is 6 months or less, but prognostication is difficult for the noncancer patient. The following example is part of a project that we did to determine what variables might predict length of stay and particularly which might predict a stay of ≤ 180 days.

Data were gathered for 6 years from a large hospice on patients with dementia, many of whom, had Alzheimer’s disease. There were 449 cases in ...

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ISBN: 9780080912035