Predicting Return Visits to the Emergency Department for Pediatric Patients: Applying Supervised Learning Techniques to the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database

The emergency department (ED) is a critical medical resource in delivering emergency services. Clinicians must make rapid decisions to ensure patients are treated promptly. Medical errors are thus inevitable because of the complex processes and busy work environments within EDs [1,2].

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - March 25, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Ya-Han Hu, Chun-Tien Tai, Solomon Chih-Cheng Chen, Hai-Wei Lee, Sheng-Feng Sung Source Type: research