| Article ID: | iaor20012565 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 159 |
| End Page Number: | 170 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
| Journal: | International Transactions in Operational Research |
| Authors: | Delesie L., Croes L. |
| Keywords: | health services, datamining |
The exponential growth of databanks creates opportunities to expand Operational Research. An example is the development of scientific approaches to ‘mine’ intelligently the huge databanks that complex systems rely on for their management. The contribution presents an approach to exploit a health insurance databank to evaluate the performance of cardiovascular surgery nation wide.