An updated emergency visit classification tool enables managers to make valid inferences about levels of appropriateness of emergency department utilization and healthcare needs within a population.

The weighted k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification algorithm is a relatively simple technique to predict the class of an item based on two or more numeric predictor variables. For example, you ...

Reliable measures of emergency department (ED) use are important for studying ED utilization and access to care. We assessed the association of emergent classification of an ED visit based on the New ...