Predicting preventable hospital readmissions with causal machine learning.

Ben J Marafino Alejandro Schuler Vincent X Liu Gabriel J Escobar Michael Baiocchi

Published in: Health services research (2020)

Causal machine learning can be used to identify preventable hospital readmissions, if the requisite interventional data are available. Moreover, our results suggest a mismatch between risk and treatment effects.

Keyphrases

machine learning
adverse drug
big data
artificial intelligence
healthcare
electronic health record
acute care
deep learning
drug induced