To facilitate electronic health record input, we provide a list of all the possible selections. At
each step, the nurse selects one required item from the list. Ideally, the item at the top of the list
is required, and in general, we wish to rank-order the list such that the required items are as near
the top as possible. After each selection, the selected item is removed from the ranking list, and
the list is re-ordered. Here we use the commonly used measurements for association rules, such
as support and confidence [5], to construct the ranking list. In addition, due to the step-by-step
process, we use a novel measure that anticipates which selections might improve the quality of