The Utility of Nursing Notes Among Medicare Patients With Heart Failure to Predict 30-Day Rehospitalization: A Pilot Study.
The Utility of Nursing Notes Among Medicare Patients With Heart Failure to Predict 30-Day Rehospitalization: A Pilot Study.
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10.1097/jcn.0000000000000871
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发表时间:
2022-11-01
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Hurdle, John
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Kang, Youjeong;Topaz, Maxim;Dunbar, Sandra B.;Stehlik, Josef;Hurdle, John
For patients with heart failure (HF), there have been efforts to reduce risk of 30-day rehospitalization such as developing predictive models using electronic health records. Few previous studies used clinical notes to predict 30-day rehospitalization. To assess the utility of nursing notes versus discharge summaries to predict 30-day rehospitalization among patients with HF. This pilot study used free-text discharge summaries and nursing notes collected from a tertiary hospital. We randomly selected 500 Medicare patients with HF. We followed the natural language processing and machine learning pipeline for data analysis. 30-day rehospitalization risk prediction using discharge summaries (n= 500) produced an AUC of 0.74 (BOW + Neural Network). 30-day rehospitalization risk prediction using nursing notes (n = 2,046) resulted in AUC of 0.85 (BOW + Neural Network). Nursing notes provide a superior input to risk models for 30-day rehospitalization in Medicare patients with HF compared to discharge summaries.