Applying Classification Trees to Hospital Administrative Data to Identify Patients with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is a common cause of acute hospitalization. Currently, there is no accepted standard for identifying patients with LGIB in hospital administrative data. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a set of classification algorithms that use hospital...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Juned Siddique, Gregory W Ruhnke, Andrea Flores, Micah T Prochaska, Elizabeth Paesch, David O Meltzer, Chad T Whelan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4583289?pdf=render