Falls prediction using the nursing home minimum dataset.

Richard David BoyceOlga V KravchenkoSubashan PereraJordan F KarpSandra L Kane-GillCharles F ReynoldsSteven M AlbertSteven M Handler

Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2022)

The novel hybrid CART-logit algorithm is an advance over the 22 fall risk assessment tools previously evaluated in the nursing home setting because it has a better performance characteristic for the fall prediction window of ≤90 days and it is the only model designed to use features that are easily obtainable at nearly every facility in the United States.

Keyphrases

risk assessment
machine learning
deep learning
heavy metals
human health
neural network