Predicting hospital and emergency department utilization among community-dwelling older adults: Statistical and machine learning approaches.

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...

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Main Authors: Aaron Jones, Andrew P Costa, Angelina Pesevski, Paul D McNicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6211724?pdf=render