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Prioritisation Assessment and Robust Predictive System for Medical Equipment: A Comprehensive Strategic Maintenance Management.

Frontiers in public health
The advancement of technology in medical equipment has significantly improved healthcare services. However, failures in upkeeping reliability, availability, and safety affect the healthcare services quality and significant impact can be observed in o...

Characterising the nationwide burden and predictors of unkept outpatient appointments in the National Health Service in England: A cohort study using a machine learning approach.

PLoS medicine
BACKGROUND: Unkept outpatient hospital appointments cost the National Health Service £1 billion each year. Given the associated costs and morbidity of unkept appointments, this is an issue requiring urgent attention. We aimed to determine rates of un...

Heart Disease Prediction Based on the Embedded Feature Selection Method and Deep Neural Network.

Journal of healthcare engineering
In recent decades, heart disease threatens people's health seriously because of its prevalence and high risk of death. Therefore, predicting heart disease through some simple physical indicators obtained from the regular physical examination at an ea...

Machine learning versus regression modelling in predicting individual healthcare costs from a representative sample of the nationwide claims database in France.

The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
BACKGROUND: Innovative provider payment methods that avoid adverse selection and reward performance require accurate prediction of healthcare costs based on individual risk adjustment. Our objective was to compare the performances of a simple neural ...

What Do Patients Care About? Mining Fine-grained Patient Concerns from Online Physician Reviews Through Computer-Assisted Multi-level Qualitative Analysis.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Online physician review (OPR) websites have been increasingly used by healthcare consumers to make informed decisions in selecting healthcare providers. However, consumer-generated online reviews are often unstructured and contain plural topics with ...

Generalized linear mixed-model (GLMM) trees: A flexible decision-tree method for multilevel and longitudinal data.

Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research
Decision-tree methods are machine-learning methods which provide results that are relatively easy to interpret and apply by human decision makers. The resulting decision trees show how baseline patient characteristics can be combined to predict trea...

What are the main patient safety concerns of healthcare stakeholders: a mixed-method study of Web-based text.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVES: Various healthcare stakeholders define quality of care in different ways. Public policy could advocate all these concerns. This study was conducted to identify the main themes on patient safety of stakeholders expressed before and after t...

Characterising and predicting persistent high-cost utilisers in healthcare: a retrospective cohort study in Singapore.

BMJ open
OBJECTIVE: We aim to characterise persistent high utilisers (PHUs) of healthcare services, and correspondingly, transient high utilisers (THUs) and non-high utilisers (non-HUs) for comparison, to facilitate stratifying HUs for targeted intervention. ...

A deep learning model for pediatric patient risk stratification.

The American journal of managed care
OBJECTIVES: Current models for patient risk prediction rely on practitioner expertise and domain knowledge. This study presents a deep learning model-a type of machine learning that does not require human inputs-to analyze complex clinical and financ...

Estimating causal effects for survival (time-to-event) outcomes by combining classification tree analysis and propensity score weighting.

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: A common approach to assessing treatment effects in nonrandomized studies with time-to-event outcomes is to estimate propensity scores and compute weights using logistic regression, test for covariate balance, and then...