Journal Article

·2015 OPEN ACCESS

Structural Analysis of Treatment Cycles Representing Transitions between Nursing Organizational Units Inferred from Diabetes

Matthias Dehmer , Zeyneb Kurt YTU , Frank Emmert‐Streib , Christa Them , Eva Schulc , Sabine E. Hofer

PLoS ONE

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate treatment cycles inferred from diabetes data by means of graph theory. We define the term treatment cycles graph-theoretically and perform a descriptive as well as quantitative analysis thereof. Also, we interpret our findings in terms of nursing and clinical management.

Keywords

Graph Diabetes mellitus Graph theory Term (time) Computer science Data science Descriptive statistics Medicine Bioinformatics Information retrieval Theoretical computer science Statistics Mathematics Physics Biology Endocrinology Combinatorics

Subject Areas

Diabetes Management and Research ·Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ·Health Sciences
Chronic Disease Management Strategies ·Epidemiology ·Health Sciences
Diabetes Management and Education ·Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ·Health Sciences

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