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1.1 DRG-Systems and the Economic Situation in Hospitals |
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1.2 Necessity of a Holistic Planning Approach |
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1.3 Strategic, Tactical and Operational Problems in Hospitals |
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1.4 Topic of This Dissertation |
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2 Machine Learning for Early DRG Classification |
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2.1 Machine Learning for Health Care: A Literature Review |
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2.1.1 Selection Criteria and Search for Relevant Literature |
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2.1.2 Classification of Relevant Literature |
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2.2 Attribute Ranking and Selection Techniques Employed for Early DRG Classification |
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2.2.1 Information Gain Attribute Ranking |
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2.2.2 Relief-F Attribute Ranking |
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2.2.3 Markov Blanket Attribute Selection |
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2.2.4 Correlation-Based Feature Selection |
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2.2.5 Wrapper Attribute Selection |
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2.3 Classification Techniques Employed for Early DRG Classification |
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2.3.3 Classification Trees |
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2.3.4 Voting-Based Combined Classification |
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2.3.5 Probability Averaging to Combine the DRG Grouper with Machine Learning Approaches |
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2.3.6 Decision Rule-Based Mapping of Attribute Values to DRGs |
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3 Scheduling the Hospital-Wide Flow of Elective Patients |
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3.1 Mathematical Programming Applied to Patient Scheduling in Hospitals |
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3.1.1 Selection Criteria and Search for Relevant Literature |
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3.1.2 Classification of Relevant Literature |
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3.2 The Patient Flow Problem with Fixed Admission Dates |
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3.3 The Patient Flow Problem with Variable Admission Dates |
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3.4 An Example of the Patient Flow Problem with Fixed and Variable Admission Dates |
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3.5 A Rolling Horizon Approach for Scheduling the Hospital-Wide Flow of Elective Patients |
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4.1 Experimental Evaluation of the Early DRG Classification |
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4.1.1 Data from Patients That Contact the Hospital Before Admission (Elective Patients) |
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4.1.2 Data from All Patients Available at Admission (Elective and Non-elective Patients) |
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4.1.3 Results of the Attribute Ranking and Selection |
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4.1.4 Evaluation Techniques for the Classification Part |
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4.1.6 Parameter Optimization for the Classification Tree |
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4.1.7 Results of the Classification Techniques |
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4.1.8 Investigation on Major Diagnostic Categories |
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4.1.9 Investigation on Selected DRGs |
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4.1.10 Evaluation of Expected Revenue Estimates |
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4.2 Computational and Economic Analysis of Scheduling the Hospital-Wide Flow of Elective Patients |
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4.2.1 Data and Instance Generation |
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4.2.2 Computation Time Analysis of the Static Approaches |
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4.2.3 Economic Analysis of the Static Approaches |
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4.2.4 Economic Analysis of the Rolling Horizon Approach |
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5.2 Main Research Contributions |
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A Notation and List of Abbreviations |
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B Attributes Assessed and Ranking Results for the Early DRG Classification |
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Bibliography |
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