A Decision Support Model for Predicting Avoidable Re-Hospitalization of Breast Cancer Patients in Kenyatta National Hospital

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dc.contributor.authorOtieno, Christopher Oyuech
dc.contributor.authorOboko, Robert Obwocha
dc.contributor.authorKahonge, Andrew Mwaura
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-30T09:08:25Z
dc.date.available2023-03-30T09:08:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed to develop a clinical Decision Support Model (DSM) which is software that provides physicians and other healthcare stakeholders with patient-specific assessments and recommendation in aiding clinical decision- making while discharging Breast cancer patient since the diagnostics and discharge problem is often overwhelming for a clinician to process at the point of care or in urgent situations. The model incorporates Breast cancer patient-specific data that are well-structured having been attained from a prestudy’s administered questionnaires and current evidence-based guidelines. Obtained dataset of the prestudy’s questionnaires is processed via data mining techniques to generate an optimal clinical decision tree classifier model which serves physicians in enhancing their decision-making process while discharging a breast cancer patient on basic cognitive processes involved in medical thinking hence new, better-formed, and superior outcomes. The model also improves the quality of assessments by constructing predictive discharging models from code attributes enabling timely detection of deterioration in the quality of health of a breast cancer patient upon discharge. The outcome of implementing this study is a decision support model that bridges the gap occasioned by less informed clinical Breast cancer discharge that is based merely on experts’ opinions which is insufficiently reinforced for better treatment outcomes. The reinforced discharge decision for better treatment outcomes is through timely deployment of the decision support model to work hand in hand with the expertise in deriving an integrative discharge decision and has been an agreed strategy to eliminate the foreseeable deteriorating quality of health for a discharged breast cancer patients and surging rates of mortality blamed on mistrusted discharge decisions. In this paper, we will discuss breast cancer clinical knowledge, data mining techniques, the classifying model accuracy, and the Python web-based decision support mod-el that predicts avoidable re-hospitalization of a breast cancer patient through an informed clinical discharging support model.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOtieno, C.O., Obwocha, O.R. and Kahonge, A.M. (2022) A Decision Support Model for Predicting Avoidable Re-Hospitalization of Breast Cancer Patients in Kenyatta National Hospital. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications , 15, 275-307. https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2022.158017en_US
dc.identifier.issn1945-3124
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4042 https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jsea_2022072814415397.pdf
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Software Engineering and Applicationsen_US
dc.subjectDecision Support Modelen_US
dc.subjectPredicting Avoidable Re-Hospitalizationen_US
dc.subjectBreast Cancer Patientsen_US
dc.subjectKenyatta National Hospitalen_US
dc.titleA Decision Support Model for Predicting Avoidable Re-Hospitalization of Breast Cancer Patients in Kenyatta National Hospitalen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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