Journal article
Predicting hospital and emergency department utilization among community-dwelling older adults: Statistical and machine learning approaches
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the performance of several commonly used machine learning methods to traditional statistical methods for predicting emergency department and hospital utilization among patients receiving publicly-funded home care services.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of publicly-funded home care recipients in the Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant region …
Authors
Jones A; Costa AP; Pesevski A; McNicholas PD
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 11,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0206662
ISSN
1932-6203