Using a Multilayer Perceptron to Estimate Healthcare Costs and Lengths of Stay

A hospital system is interested in tracking costs and lengths of stay for patients admitted for treatment of myocardial infarction (MI, or "heart attack"). Obtaining accurate estimates of these measures allow the administration to properly manage the available bed space as patients are treated.

The data file patient_los.sav contains the treatment records of a sample of patients who received treatment for MI. See the topic Sample Files for more information. Use the Multilayer Perceptron procedure to build a network for predicting costs and length of stay.

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