LOS Colon Cancer 621 cases

The data set comes from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania, and concerns the hospitalization period of 621 patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer that underwent surgery between 2007 and 2014. It contains 8 attributes, namely socio-demographic variables (age, sex) and clinical information (operation type, tumor topography, stage, tumor parameter (T), adenopathy parameter (N) and metastases (M)).<br>The independent variable -- the hospitalization period -- is split into three intervals: 1-7 days -- short stay (177 cases), 8-14 days -- medium stay (96 cases), over 14 days -- long stay (95 cases). <br>The "Surgery" attribute values are renamed in the data set for an easier manner of accessing them:one = Ileotransverse-anastomosistwo = Raybard colectomythree = Ileosigmoid anastomosisfour = Segmental colectomyfive = Left hemicolectomysix = Subtotal colectomyseven = Abdominoperineal rectal amputationeight = Hartmann rectosigmoidian resectionnine = Rectal biopsyten = Rectosigmoidian resectioneleven = Loop colostomytwelve = Total colectomythirteen = Right hemicolectomyfourteen = Ileostomyfifteen = Low anterior rectosigmoidian resection (Dixon procedure)<br>A thorough description of the data set can be found in the paper:<br>* Ruxandra Stoean, Catalin Stoean, Adrian Sandita, Daniela Ciobanu, Cristian Mesina, Interpreting Decision Support from Multiple Classifiers for Predicting Length of Stay in Patients with Colorectal Carcinoma, Neural Processing Letters, DOI 10.1007/s11063-017-9585-7, pp.1-17, 2017.<br>If you publish material based on the current database, please refer the paper above within the References.