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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2020

Profiling Patients by Intensity of Nursing Care: An Operative Approach Using Machine Learning.

Honoria Ocagli, Corrado Lanera, Giulia Lorenzoni, Ilaria Prosepe, Danila Azzolina, Sabrina Bortolotto, Lucia Stivanello, Mario Degan, Dario Gregori

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Honoria OcagliUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Corrado LaneraUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0520-7428
Giulia LorenzoniUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Ilaria ProsepeUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Danila AzzolinaUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Sabrina BortolottoUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Lucia StivanelloHealth Professional Management Service (DPS) of the University Hospital of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.
Mario DeganHealth Professional Management Service (DPS) of the University Hospital of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.
Dario GregoriUnit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences, and Public Health, University of Padova, via Loredan, 18, 35121 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7906-0580

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical function is a patient-oriented indicator and can be considered a proxy for the assignment of healthcare personnel. The study aims to create an algorithm that classifies patients into homogeneous groups according to physical function. A two-step machine-learning algorithm was applied to administrative data recorded between 2015 and 2018 at the University Hospital of Padova. A clustering-large-applications (CLARA) algorithm was used to partition patients into homogeneous groups. Then, machine learning technique (MLT) classifiers were used to categorize the doubtful records. Based on the results of the CLARA algorithm, records were divided into three groups according to the Barthel index: <45, >65, ≥45 and ≤65. The support vector machine was the MLT showing the best performance among doubtful records, reaching an accuracy of 66%. The two-step algorithm, since it splits patients into low and high resource consumption, could be a useful tool for organizing healthcare personnel allocation according to the patients' assistance needs.

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Barthel indexCLARAintensity of nursing caremachine learning technique

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PMID33327412
PMCPMC7768500

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