Optimizing Hospital-wide Patient Scheduling Early Classification of Diagnosis-related Groups Through Machine Learning /

• Main Author: Gartner, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 674
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Health informatics.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Health Informatics.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Health Care Management.

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services. The assignment of a patient to a DRG can be distinguished into billing- and operations-driven DRG classification. The topic of this monograph is operations-driven DRG classification, in which DRGs of i...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Machine learning for early DRG classification
• Scheduling the hospital-wide flow of elective patients
• Experimental analyses
• Conclusion.