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Assessing the Quality of Care for End Stage Renal Failure Patients by Means of Artificial Intelligence Methodologies

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale Italy, Corso Borsalino 54, 15100, Alessandria, Italy

    Stefania Montani

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale Italy, Corso Borsalino 55, 15101, Alessandria, Italy

    Luigi Portinale

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy

    Riccardo Bellazzi

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy

    Cristiana Larizza

  5. Unità Operativa di Nefrologia e Dialisi, S.O Vigevano, A.O. Pavia, Italy

    Roberto Bellazzi

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  1. Department of Radiology, Harvard University, Blossom Court 75, 2114, Boston, USA

    Hiro Yoshida

  2. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville Road, 5011, Woodville, Australia

    Ashlesha Jain

  3. Independant Living Centre, Blacks Road 11, 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Ajita Ichalkaranje

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  5. Department of Communications, Department of Communications, IT and the Arts, ACT 2601, Canberra, Australia

    Nikhil Ichalkaranje (Senior Technology Advisor) (Senior Technology Advisor)

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Montani, S., Portinale, L., Bellazzi, R., Larizza, C., Bellazzi, R. (2007). Assessing the Quality of Care for End Stage Renal Failure Patients by Means of Artificial Intelligence Methodologies. In: Yoshida, H., Jain, A., Ichalkaranje, A., Jain, L.C., Ichalkaranje, N. (eds) Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare – 1. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47527-9_4

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