AIMC Topic: Home Care Services

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Fairness gaps in Machine learning models for hospitalization and emergency department visit risk prediction in home healthcare patients with heart failure.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to evaluate the fairness performance metrics of Machine Learning (ML) models to predict hospitalization and emergency department (ED) visits in heart failure patients receiving home healthcare. We analyze biases, assess pe...

Natural Language Processing to Identify Home Health Care Patients at Risk for Becoming Incapacitated With No Evident Advance Directives or Surrogates.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
OBJECTIVES: Home health care patients who are at risk for becoming Incapacitated with No Evident Advance Directives or Surrogates (INEADS) may benefit from timely intervention to assist them with advance care planning. This study aimed to develop nat...

Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals' use of working time in older people's home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial.

BMC health services research
BACKGROUND: Medication management has a key role in the daily tasks of home care professionals delivered to older clients in home care. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of using a robot for medication management on home care profession...

Perspectives of Patients With Chronic Diseases on Future Acceptance of AI-Based Home Care Systems: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey Study.

JMIR human factors
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based home care systems and devices are being gradually integrated into health care delivery to benefit patients with chronic diseases. However, existing research mainly focuses on the technical and clinical a...

Using Interoperability between Mobile Robot and KNX Technology for Occupancy Monitoring in Smart Home Care.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
It is important for older and disabled people who live alone to be able to cope with the daily challenges of living at home. In order to support independent living, the Smart Home Care (SHC) concept offers the possibility of providing comfortable con...

Social Risk Factors are Associated with Risk for Hospitalization in Home Health Care: A Natural Language Processing Study.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the association between social risk factors and hospitalization or an emerge...

Developing a model to explain users' ethical perceptions regarding the use of care robots in home care: A cross-sectional study in Ireland, Finland, and Japan.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
To date, research on ethical issues regarding care robots for older adults, family caregivers, and care workers has not progressed sufficiently. This study aimed to build a model that universally explains the relationship between the use of care robo...

Optimising the care for older persons with complex chronic conditions in home care and nursing homes: design and protocol of I-CARE4OLD, an observational study using real-world data.

BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: In ageing societies, the number of older adults with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) is rapidly increasing. Care for older persons with CCCs is challenging, due to interactions between multiple conditions and their treatments. In home...