Research Article
About the Evaluation of Liver Disease by the Monitoring of Mahalanobis Distance: Examination for Acute Hepatic Failure
Hisato Nakajima1* Kouya Yano2 Ichirou Takagi31Department of Medical Insurance Guidance Room, The Jikei University Hospital, Japan
2Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Japan
3Department of Gastroentero logy and Hepatology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
- Corresponding Author:
- Hisato Nakajima
Department of Medical Insurance Guidance Room
The Jikei University Hospital, Japan
E-mail: drhisato@icloud.com
Received Date: May 18, 2013; Accepted Date: June 21, 2013; Published Date: June 24, 2013
Citation: Nakajima H, Yano K, Uetake S, Takagi I (2013) About the Evaluation of Liver Disease by the Monitoring of Mahalanobis Distance: Examination for Acute Hepatic Failure. J Community Med Health Educ 3:220. doi: 10.4172/2165-7904.1000220
Copyright: © 2013 Nakajima H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
It is Mahalanobis-Taguchi (MT) system to give the standard to evaluate a process of diagnosis of the doctor commonly. When Mahalanobis distance (MD) is calculated using MT system, it can be grasped as a unitary statistic. MD was calculated using data of fulminant hepatitis and acute on chronic hepatic failure, and a change of MD was compared with the outcome of patients. As a result, it was expressed for the numerical unified value that the data which changed complicatedly. When MD increase, the condition of a patient turns worse. When MD decreases, the condition of a patient is improved. This judgment was enabled easily and was useful as information in the medical treatment.