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Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2007)
Analysis of Relationship between Blood Stream Infection and Clinical Background in Patients? Lactobacillus Therapy by Data Mining
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
October 28-October 31
ISBN: 0-7695-3033-8
The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of lactobacillus therapy and the background risk factors on blood stream infection in patients from our hospital clinical microbiology database by data mining. The data was analyzed by data mining software, i.e. "ICONS Miner" (Koden Industry Co., Ltd.). The significant "If-then rules" were extracted from the decision tree between bacteria detection on blood samples and patients' treatments, such as lactobacillus therapy, anti- biotics, various catheters, etc. The chi-square test, odds ratio and logistic regression were applied in order to analyze the effect of lactobacillus therapy to bacteria detection. From odds ratio of lactobacillus absence to lactobacillus presence, bacteria detection risk of lactobacillus absence was about 2 (95%CI: 1.57-2.99). The significant "If-then rules", chi-square test, odds ratio and logistic regression showed that lactobacillus therapy might be the significant factor for prevention of blood stream infection. Data mining is useful for extracting background risk factors of blood stream infection from our clinical database.
Citation:
Kimiko Matsuoka, Shigeki Yokoyama, Kumitomo Watanabe, Shusaku Tsumoto, "Analysis of Relationship between Blood Stream Infection and Clinical Background in Patients? Lactobacillus Therapy by Data Mining," icdmw, pp.175-180, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2007), 2007
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