Machine learning methods applied to triage in emergency services: A systematic review

R Sánchez-Salmerón, JL Gómez-Urquiza… - International Emergency …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In emergency services is important to accurately assess and classify symptoms,
which may be improved with the help of technology. One mechanism that could help and …

Using data mining to predict hospital admissions from the emergency department

B Graham, R Bond, M Quinn, M Mulvenna - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowding within emergency departments (EDs) can have significant negative
consequences for patients. EDs therefore need to explore the use of innovative methods to …

Predicting hospital admission at the emergency department triage: A novel prediction model

CA Parker, N Liu, SX Wu, Y Shen, SSW Lam… - The American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a growing international patient
safety issue. A major contributor to overcrowding is long wait times for inpatient hospital …

Inpatient flow management: a systematic review

W Winasti, S Elkhuizen, L Berrevoets… - International journal of …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose In hospitals, several patient flows compete for access to shared resources. Failure
to manage these flows result in one or more disruptions within a hospital system. To ensure …

An integrated optimization and machine learning approach to predict the admission status of emergency patients

A Ahmed, O Ashour, H Ali, M Firouz - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
This work proposes a framework for optimizing machine learning algorithms. The practicality
of the framework is illustrated using an important case study from the healthcare domain …

Prediction of emergency department patient disposition decision for proactive resource allocation for admission

SY Lee, RB Chinnam, E Dalkiran, S Krupp… - Health care management …, 2020 - Springer
We investigate the capability of information from electronic health records of an emergency
department (ED) to predict patient disposition decisions for reducing “boarding” delays …

A prescriptive analytics method for cost reduction in clinical decision making

X Fang, Y Gao, PJ Hu - MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Containing skyrocketing health care costs is imperative. Toward that end, prescriptive
analytics that analyzes health care data to recommend optimal decisions is both relevant …

Inpatient admission management using multiple criteria decision-making methods

M Chalgham, I Khatrouch, M Masmoudi… - Operations Research for …, 2019 - Elsevier
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a public health issue associated with harmful
effects simultaneously on patients and ED staff. Despite increased policies and efforts to …

Managing inpatient bed setup: an action-research approach using lean technical practices and lean social practices

LP Reis, JM Fernandes, SE Silva… - Journal of Health …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This article aims to introduce a guide to improving hospital bed setup by combining
lean technical practices (LTPs), such as kaizen and value stream mapping (VSM) and lean …

Predicting admission at triage: are nurses better than a simple objective score?

A Cameron, AJ Ireland, GA McKay, A Stark… - Emergency medicine …, 2017 - emj.bmj.com
Aim We compared two methods of predicting hospital admission from ED triage:
probabilities estimated by triage nurses and probabilities calculated by the Glasgow …