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Using Cluster Analysis to Identify Weak Signals of Lethal Trends in Aviation and Healthcare Documentation

Olli Sjöblom, Laura-Maria Murtola, Juho Heimonen, Lotta Kauhanen, Veronika Laippala, Heljä Lundgren-Laine, Tapio Salakoski, Sanna Salanterä, Using Cluster Analysis to Identify Weak Signals of Lethal Trends in Aviation and Healthcare Documentation. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations 13, 66–80, 2013.

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.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jSjMuHeKaLaLuSaSa13a,
  title = {Using Cluster Analysis to Identify Weak Signals of Lethal Trends in Aviation and Healthcare Documentation},
  author = {Sjöblom, Olli and Murtola, Laura-Maria and Heimonen, Juho and Kauhanen, Lotta and Laippala, Veronika and Lundgren-Laine, Heljä and Salakoski, Tapio and Salanterä, Sanna},
  journal = {International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations},
  volume = {13},
  pages = {66–80},
  year = {2013},
}

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