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Prediction of readmissions in hospitalized children and adolescents by machine learning

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Pediatric hospital readmission involves greater burdens for the patient and their family network, and for the health system. Machine learning can be a good strategy to expand knowledge in this area and to assist in the identification of patients at readmission risk. The objective of the study was to develop a predictive model to identify children and adolescents at high risk of potentially avoidable 30-day readmission using a machine learning approach. Retrospective cohort study with patients under 18 years old admitted to a tertiary university hospital. We collected demographic, clinical, and nutritional data from electronic databases. We apply machine learning techniques to build the predictive models. The 30-day hospital readmissions rate was 9.50%. The accuracy for CART model with bagging was 0.79, the sensitivity, and specificity were 76.30% and 64.40%, respectively. Machine learning approaches can predict avoidable 30-day pediatric hospital readmission into tertiary assistance.

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SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
March 2023
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ISBN:9781450395175
DOI:10.1145/3555776
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  1. machine learning
  2. data analysis
  3. hospital readmission
  4. children health
  5. adolescents health

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