Can patient-reported data improve predictions about who will be a high-need, high-cost patient in British Columbia?

PurposeImproving the outcomes for high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients requires accurately predicting who will become an HNHC patient. The objectives of this study are to: (1) develop models to predict individuals at risk of becoming future HNHC patients, and (2) compare the performance of predictive models with and without patient-reported data.MethodsWe used data from two patient-reported surveys datasets from British Columbia, Canada …