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Surgical Wound Infection — Conducive Factors and Their Mutual Dependencies

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Intelligent Decision Support

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The paper presents rough set analysis of commonly accepted factors of surgical wound infection. Two separate sets of data are compared and some possible transformations of the information system are proposed.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, A. Mickiewicz University, 60-769, Poznań, Poland

    Maciej Kandulski

  2. Institute of Linguistics, A. Mickiewicz University, 61-874, Poznań, Poland

    Jacek Marciniec

  3. Clinic of Surgery, Departament of Nursing, Medical Academy, 60-479, Poznań, Poland

    Konstanty Tukałło

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  1. Institute of Computing Science, Technical University of Poznań, Poland

    Roman Słowiński

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Kandulski, M., Marciniec, J., Tukałło, K. (1992). Surgical Wound Infection — Conducive Factors and Their Mutual Dependencies. In: Słowiński, R. (eds) Intelligent Decision Support. Theory and Decision Library, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7975-9_7

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