Knowledge discovery in nursing minimum data set using data mining.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to apply data mining tool to nursing specific knowledge discovery process and to identify the utilization of data mining skill for clinical decision making.

Methods: Data mining based on rough set model was conducted on a large clinical data set containing NMDS elements. Randomized 1,000 patient data were selected from year 1998 database which had at least one of the five most frequently used nursing diagnoses.