 Using cluster analysis to identify weak signals of lethal trends in aviation and healthcare documentationOlli Sjöblom, Laura-Maria Murtola, Juho Heimonen, Lotta Kauhanen, Veronika Laippala, Heljä Lundgren-Laine, Tapio Salakoski and Sanna Salanterä International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2013, vol. 13, issue 1, 66-80 Abstract: Effective methods are needed to identify and manage risks in both aviation and healthcare to improve safety. Analysing safety related records and learning from 'touch and go' situations is one possible way of preventing hazardous conditions from occurring in both aviation and healthcare. The eventuality of an incident or an accident may markedly be reduced if the risks connected to it are efficiently diagnosed. With the aid of this outlook, flight safety has witnessed decades of successful improvement. Since aviation and healthcare share similarities, the methods for improving safety could be transferable between the domains. This paper explores how a data mining technique used in aviation to identify the weak signals of lethal trends can be applied to healthcare documentation. Keywords: aviation safety; patient safety; lethal trends; hazardous events; e-health; electronic healthcare; risk management; text mining; clustering; weak signals; cluster analysis; healthcare documentation; aircraft industry. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:13:y:2013:i:1:p:66-80 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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