Transitioning to a data driven mental health practice: collaborative expert sessions for knowledge and hypothesis finding

Vincent Menger, Marco Spruit, Karin Hagoort, Floor Scheepers

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    Abstract

    The surge in the amount of available data in health care enables a novel, exploratory research approach that revolves around finding new knowledge and unexpected hypotheses from data instead of carrying out well-defined data analysis tasks. We propose a specification of the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), suitable for conducting expert sessions that focus on finding new knowledge and hypotheses in collaboration with local workforce. Our proposed specification that we name CRISP-IDM is evaluated in a case study at the psychiatry department of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Expert interviews were conducted to identify seven research themes in the psychiatry department, which were researched in cooperation with local health care professionals using data visualization as a modeling tool. During 19 expert sessions, two results that were directly implemented and 29 hypotheses for further research were found, of which 24 were not imagined during the initial expert interviews. Our work demonstrates the viability and benefits of involving work floor people in the analyses and the possibility to effectively find new knowledge and hypotheses using our CRISP-IDM method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number9089321
    Number of pages11
    JournalComputational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
    Volume2016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2016

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