Preliminary Results of an Analysis Using Association Rules to Find Relations between Medical Opinions About the non-Realization of Autopsies in a Mexican Hospital

Abstract

In the last years, a significant reduction in the number of autopsies realized in the hospitals of the world has been observed. Since medics are the closest people to this problematic, they can offer information that helps clarify why the decreasing of this practice has occurred. In this paper, data mining techniques are applied to perform an analysis of medical opinions regarding the realization of autopsies in a hospital of Veracruz, in Mexico. The opinions were collected through surveys applied to 85 medics of the hospital. The result is a model represented by a set of rules that suggests some of the factors that are related to the decrease in the number of autopsies in the hospital, according to the survey respondents.