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ArticlePloS one2022

Decision support through risk cost estimation in 30-day hospital unplanned readmission.

Laura Arnal, Pedro Pons-Suñer, J Ramón Navarro-Cerdán, Pablo Ruiz-Valls, Mª Jose Caballero Mateos, Bernardo Valdivieso Martínez, Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Laura ArnalInstituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2173-8886
Pedro Pons-SuñerInstituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.
J Ramón Navarro-CerdánInstituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.
Pablo Ruiz-VallsInstituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.
Mª Jose Caballero MateosHealth Research Institute of La Fe University Hospital, Fernando Abril Martorell, València, Spain.
Bernardo Valdivieso MartínezHealth Research Institute of La Fe University Hospital, Fernando Abril Martorell, València, Spain.
Juan-Carlos Perez-CortesInstituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6506-090X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unplanned hospital readmissions mean a significant burden for health systems. Accurately estimating the patient's readmission risk could help to optimise the discharge decision-making process by smartly ordering patients based on a severity score, thus helping to improve the usage of clinical resources. A great number of heterogeneous factors can influence the readmission risk, which makes it highly difficult to be estimated by a human agent. However, this score could be achieved with the help of AI models, acting as aiding tools for decision support systems. In this paper, we propose a machine learning classification and risk stratification approach to assess the readmission problem and provide a decision support system based on estimated patient risk scores.

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Patient DischargePatient ReadmissionHospitalsHumansMachine LearningRetrospective StudiesRisk Factors

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PMCPMC9286269

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