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SUBMITTER: Hilton CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7125114 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hilton C Beau CB Milinovich Alex A Felix Christina C Vakharia Nirav N Crone Timothy T Donovan Chris C Proctor Andrew A Nazha Aziz A
NPJ digital medicine 20200403
Hospital systems, payers, and regulators have focused on reducing length of stay (LOS) and early readmission, with uncertain benefit. Interpretable machine learning (ML) may assist in transparently identifying the risk of important outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of hospitalizations at a tertiary academic medical center and its branches from January 2011 to May 2018. A consecutive sample of all hospitalizations in the study period were included. Algorithms were trained on med ...[more]