Analysis of Questionnaire for Traditional Medicine and Development of Decision Support System
Joint Authors
Miyano, Satoru
Imoto, Seiya
Yamaguchi, Rui
Katayama, Kotoe
Watanabe, Kenji
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-01-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Kampo medicine is the Japanese adaptation of traditional medicine.
In Kampo medicine, “medical interview” plays an important role.
“Medical interview” in Japanese traditional medicine includes not only chief complaint but also a questionnaire that asked about the patient's lifestyle and subjective symptoms.
The diagnosis by Kampo is called “Sho” and determined by completely different view from Western medicine.
Specialists gather all available information and decide “Sho.” And this is the reason why non-Kampo specialists without technical knowledge have difficulties to use traditional medicine.
We analyzed “medical interview” data to establish an indicator for non-Kampo specialist without technical knowledge to perform suitable traditional medicine.
We predicted “Sho” by using random forests algorithm which is powerful algorithm for classification.
First, we use all the 2830 first-visit patients’ data.
The discriminant ratio of training data was perfect but that of test data is only 67.0%.
Second, to achieve high prediction power for practical use, we did data cleaning, and discriminant ratio of test data was 72.4%.
Third, we added body mass index (BMI) data to “medical interview” data and discriminant ratio of test data is 91.2%.
Originally, deficiency and excess category means that patient is strongly built or poorly built.
We notice that the most important variable for classification is BMI.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Katayama, Kotoe& Yamaguchi, Rui& Imoto, Seiya& Watanabe, Kenji& Miyano, Satoru. 2014. Analysis of Questionnaire for Traditional Medicine and Development of Decision Support System. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Katayama, Kotoe…[et al.]. Analysis of Questionnaire for Traditional Medicine and Development of Decision Support System. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Katayama, Kotoe& Yamaguchi, Rui& Imoto, Seiya& Watanabe, Kenji& Miyano, Satoru. Analysis of Questionnaire for Traditional Medicine and Development of Decision Support System. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035511
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1035511