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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110681
Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 6, 2020.
Abstract: Usually, in a hospital, the data generated by each department or section is treated in isolation, believing that there is no relationship between them. It is thought that while one department is in high demand, it can not influence that another may have the same demand or not have any demand. In this paper, we question this approach by considering information from departments as components of a large system in the hospital. Thus, we present an algorithm to predict the appointments of departments when data is not available using data from other departments. This algorithm uses a model based on multiple linear regression using a correlation matrix to measure the rela-tionship between the departments with different time windows. After running our algorithm for different time windows and departments, we experimentally find that while we increase the extension of a time window and learn dependencies in the data, its corresponding precision decreases. Indeed, a month of data is the minimum sweet spot to leverage information from other departments and still provide accurate predictions. These results are important to develop per-department health policies under limited data, an interesting problem that we plan to investigate in future works.
Harold Caceres, Nelson Fuentes, Julio Aguilar, Cesar Baluarte, Karim Guevara, Eveling Castro-Gutierrez and Omar U. Florez, “Predicting Number of Hospital Appointments When No Data Is Available” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(6), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110681
@article{Caceres2020,
title = {Predicting Number of Hospital Appointments When No Data Is Available},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110681},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110681},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {6},
author = {Harold Caceres and Nelson Fuentes and Julio Aguilar and Cesar Baluarte and Karim Guevara and Eveling Castro-Gutierrez and Omar U. Florez}
}