The Necessity of Data Mining in Clinical Emergency Medicine; A Narrative Review of the Current Literatrue

• Main Authors: Elahe Parva, Reza Boostani, Zahra Ghahramani, Shahram Paydar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2017-04-01
• Series: Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma
• Subjects: Necessity; Data mining; Clinical; Emergency Medicine
• Online Access: http://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44375_5e2030cbc29b9849591ecb9b5d665abf.pdf

Clinical databases can be categorized as big data, include large quantities of information about patients and their medical conditions. Analyzing the quantitative and qualitative clinical data in addition with discovering relationships among huge number of samples using data mining techniques could unveil hidden medical knowledge in terms of correlation and association of apparently independent variables. The aim of this research is using predictive algorithm for prediction of trauma patients on admission to hospital to be able to predict the necessary treatment for patients and provided the necessary measures for the trauma patients who are before entering the critical situation. This study provides a review on data mining in clinical medicine. The relevant, recently-published studies of data mining on medical data with a focus on emergency medicine were investigated to tackle pros and cons of such approaches. The results of this study can be used in prediction of trauma patient’s status at six hours after admission to hospital.