Cluster Analysis of Care Assessment Data and Supporting for Care Planning

Sharing know-how information for appropriately grasping care needs is an important factor to improve the quality of care service. Our know-how information sharing method highlights the differences between beginners and more skillful persons and brings them to the attention of the former. When a skillful person is given assessment data, first she roughly observes them based on a certain pattern that reflects her experience and then gradually notices the details. In this paper, we promote awareness by showing beginners this process. We classified assessment data using cluster analysis. With our results, which were verified by skillful persons, we verified that they basically agreed with the skillful person´s classification pattern. Therefore, a skillful person´s data observation process can be presented to beginners.