Predicting Hospital Readmissions from Health Insurance Claims Data: A Modeling Study Targeting Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing

CONCLUSION: PIP successfully predicted readmissions for most diseases, opening the possibility for interventions to improve these modifiable risk factors. Machine-learning methods appear promising for future modeling of PIP predictors in complex older patients with many underlying diseases.PMID:35144291 | DOI:10.1055/s-0042-1742671

Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - February 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Alexander Gerharz Carmen Ruff Lucas Wirbka Felicitas Stoll Walter E Haefeli Andreas Groll Andreas D Meid Source Type: research