How Good Is Machine Learning in Predicting All-Cause 30-Day Hospital Readmission? Evidence From Administrative Data.
Journal:
Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Published Date:
Sep 7, 2020
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Hospital readmission is a main cost driver for healthcare systems, but existing works often had poor or moderate predictive results. Although the available information differs in different studies, improving prediction is different from the search for important explanatory variables. With large sample size and abundant information, this study explores state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms and shows their performance in prediction.