Predicting hospital and emergency department utilization among community-dwelling older adults: Statistical and machine learning approaches.
Aaron JonesAndrew P CostaAngelina PesevskiPaul D McNicholasPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Gradient boosted trees and simple neural networks yielded small performance benefits over logistic regression for predicting emergency department and hospital utilization among patients receiving publicly-funded home care. However, the performance benefits were of negligible clinical importance.