Claims
- 1. A process analysis method for estimating the similarity between at least not less than two clinical processes, comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of matrixes in which, out of the time information of rendered clinical service, the type of clinical service, and the quantity of clinical service in a clinical process, the type of clinical service and the time of clinical service are set to be the row and the column, respectively, and the quantity is set to be a matrix element; arranging each matrix element of the plurality of the matrixes on a multidimensional space in which the row number and the column number M(i, j) of each of the formed matrixes are used as the axes to form a process metric space; calculating the similarity between processes defined by the metric between the respective matrix elements in the process metric space; and estimating the similarity between at least not less than two clinical processes by using the similarity between processes.
- 2. A process analysis method for estimating the similarity between at least not less than two clinical processes, comprising the steps of: forming at least not less than two matrixes in which, out of the time information of rendered clinical service, the type of clinical service, and the quantity of clinical service in a clinical process, the type of clinical service and the time of clinical service are set to be the row and the column, respectively, and the quantity is set to be a matrix element; performing a calculation for extracting the matrix elements corresponding to the same row number and column number (i, j) from the not lees than two formed matrixes on at least not less than two M(i, j); and calculating the similarity between processes defined by the metric between the respective matrix elements on a multidimensional space in which the at least not less than two M(i, j) are used as the axes.
- 3. A method for analyzing process records, comprising metric calculation for converting the similarity between processes into a numerical value for process records made up of a series of records of rendered service of at least three elements of the time of each service, the type of each service, and the quantity of each service by using at least one of the three elements.
- 4. The process analysis method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the similarity between processes is calculated as the root of square integral of the finite difference between two functions which has transformed the two processes or two matrixes.
Priority Claims (1)
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2001-274421 |
Sep 2001 |
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELEVANT APPLICATION
[0001] The disclosure of the patent application, Ser. No. 09/687,058, Filed on Oct. 12, 2000, pending in THE UNITED STATES Patent AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, has been incorporated by reference into the present application.