Electronic Healthcare. Third International Conference, eHealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Improvements in Data Quality for Decision Support in Intensive Care

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_11,
        author={Filipe Portela and Marta Vilas-Boas and Manuel Santos},
        title={Improvements in Data Quality for Decision Support in Intensive Care},
        proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Third International Conference, eHealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={E-HEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Patient ID Data Quality Data Acquisition Real-Time Null Values Electronic Nursing Records},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_11}
    }
    
  • Filipe Portela
    Marta Vilas-Boas
    Manuel Santos
    Year: 2012
    Improvements in Data Quality for Decision Support in Intensive Care
    E-HEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_11
Filipe Portela1,*, Marta Vilas-Boas1,*, Manuel Santos1,*
  • 1: University of Minho
*Contact email: cfp@dsi.uminho.pt, mvb@dsi.uminho.pt, mfs@dsi.uminho.pt

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a plethora of technology in hospitals and, in particular, in intensive care units. The clinical data produced everyday can be integrated in a decision support system in real-time to improve quality of care of the critically ill patients. However, there are many sensitive aspects that must be taken into account, mainly the data quality and the integration of heterogeneous data sources. This paper presents INTCare, an Intelligent Decision Support System for Intensive Care in real-time and addresses the previous aspects, in particular, the development of an Electronic Nursing Record and the improvements in the quality of monitored data.