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Predicting Life Expectancy to Target Cancer Screening Using Electronic Health Record Clinical Data.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines recommend breast and colorectal cancer screening for older adults with a life expectancy >10 years. Most mortality indexes require clinician data entry, presenting a barrier for routine use in care. Electronic health records (EHR) are a rich clinical data source that could be used to create individualized life expectancy predictions to identify patients for cancer screening without data entry.

Objective

To develop and internally validate a life expectancy calculator from structured EHR data.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using national Veteran's Affairs (VA) EHR databases.

Patients

Veterans aged 50+ with a primary care visit during 2005.

Main measures

We assessed demographics, diseases, medications, laboratory results, healthcare utilization, and vital signs 1 year prior to the index visit. Mortality follow-up was complete through 2017. Using the development cohort (80% sample), we used LASSO Cox regression to select ~100 predictors from 913 EHR data elements. In the validation cohort (remaining 20% sample), we calculated the integrated area under the curve (iAUC) and evaluated calibration.

Key results

In 3,705,122 patients, the mean age was 68 years and the majority were male (97%) and white (85%); nearly half (49%) died. The life expectancy calculator included 93 predictors; age and gender most strongly contributed to discrimination; diseases also contributed significantly while vital signs were negligible. The iAUC was 0.816 (95% confidence interval, 0.815, 0.817) with good calibration.

Conclusions

We developed a life expectancy calculator using VA EHR data with excellent discrimination and calibration. Automated life expectancy prediction using EHR data may improve guideline-concordant breast and colorectal cancer screening by identifying patients with a life expectancy >10 years.

SUBMITTER: Lee AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858374 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Predicting Life Expectancy to Target Cancer Screening Using Electronic Health Record Clinical Data.

Lee Alexandra K AK   Jing Bocheng B   Jeon Sun Y SY   Boscardin W John WJ   Lee Sei J SJ  

Journal of general internal medicine 20210729 3


<h4>Background</h4>Guidelines recommend breast and colorectal cancer screening for older adults with a life expectancy >10 years. Most mortality indexes require clinician data entry, presenting a barrier for routine use in care. Electronic health records (EHR) are a rich clinical data source that could be used to create individualized life expectancy predictions to identify patients for cancer screening without data entry.<h4>Objective</h4>To develop and internally validate a life expectancy cal  ...[more]

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