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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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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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