OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine variation in hospital responses to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's expansion of allowable secondary diagnoses in January 2011 and its association with financial penalties under the Hospita...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 26, 2020
Studies in the last decade have focused on identifying patients at risk of readmission using predictive models, in an objective to decrease costs to the healthcare system. However, real-time models specifically identifying readmissions related to hos...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Anticipating unplanned hospital readmission episodes is a safety and medico-economic issue. We compared statistics (Logistic Regression) and machine learning algorithms (Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, and Neural Network) for predicting the risk of...
BACKGROUND: Although prediction of hospital readmissions has been studied in medical patients, it has received relatively little attention in surgical patient populations. Published predictors require information only available at the moment of disch...
BACKGROUND: Electronic health record-derived data and novel analytics, such as machine learning, offer promising approaches to identify high-risk patients and inform nursing practice.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) engines such as the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System are a solution for processing notes for research, but optimizing their performance for a clinical data warehouse remains a challen...