Medical service demand forecasting using a hybrid model based on ARIMA and self-adaptive filtering method

Abstract Background Accurate forecasting of medical service demand is beneficial for the reasonable healthcare resource planning and allocation. The daily outpatient volume is characterized by randomness, periodicity and trend, and the time series methods, like ARIMA are often used for short-term ou...

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Main Authors: Yihuai Huang, Chao Xu, Mengzhong Ji, Wei Xiang, Da He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-020-01256-1