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Knowledge discovery from microbiology data

many-sided analysis of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial infections

Mykola Pechenizkiy Alexey Tsymbal Seppo Puuronen Michael Shifrin Irina Alexandrova

pp. 360-372

Abstract

Nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance (AR) are highly important problems that impact the morbidity and mortality of hospitalized patients as well as their cost of care. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate our analysis of AR by applying a number of various data mining (DM) techniques to real hospital data. The data for the analysis includes instances of sensitivity of nosocomial infections to antibiotics collected in a hospital over three years 2002-2004. The results of our study show that DM makes it easy for experts to inspect patterns that might otherwise be missed by usual (manual) infection control. However, the clinical relevance and utility of these findings await the results of prospective studies. We see our main contribution in this paper in introducing and applying a many-sided analysis approach to real-world data. The application of diversified DM techniques, which are not necessarily accurate and do not best suit to the present problem in the usual sense, still offers a possibility to analyze and understand the problem from different perspectives.

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Dieter Althoff Klaus, Dengel Andreas, Bergmann Ralph, Nick Markus (2005) Professional knowledge management: third biennial conference, wm 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, april 10-13, 2005, revised selected papers. Berlin, Springer.

Pages: 360-372

DOI: 10.1007/11590019_41

Full citation:

Pechenizkiy Mykola, Tsymbal Alexey, Puuronen Seppo, Shifrin Michael, Alexandrova Irina (2005) „Knowledge discovery from microbiology data: many-sided analysis of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial infections“, In: K. Dieter Althoff, A. Dengel, R. Bergmann & M. Nick (eds.), Professional knowledge management, Berlin, Springer, 360–372.