Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.

Identifying patients at risk of a 30-day readmission can help providers design interventions, and provide targeted care to improve clinical effectiveness. This study developed a risk model to predict a 30-day inpatient hospital readmission for patients in Maine, across all payers, all diseases and a...

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Main Authors: Shiying Hao, Yue Wang, Bo Jin, Andrew Young Shin, Chunqing Zhu, Min Huang, Le Zheng, Jin Luo, Zhongkai Hu, Changlin Fu, Dorothy Dai, Yicheng Wang, Devore S Culver, Shaun T Alfreds, Todd Rogow, Frank Stearns, Karl G Sylvester, Eric Widen, Xuefeng B Ling
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
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Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4598005?pdf=render
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author Shiying Hao
Yue Wang
Bo Jin
Andrew Young Shin
Chunqing Zhu
Min Huang
Le Zheng
Jin Luo
Zhongkai Hu
Changlin Fu
Dorothy Dai
Yicheng Wang
Devore S Culver
Shaun T Alfreds
Todd Rogow
Frank Stearns
Karl G Sylvester
Eric Widen
Xuefeng B Ling
author_facet Shiying Hao
Yue Wang
Bo Jin
Andrew Young Shin
Chunqing Zhu
Min Huang
Le Zheng
Jin Luo
Zhongkai Hu
Changlin Fu
Dorothy Dai
Yicheng Wang
Devore S Culver
Shaun T Alfreds
Todd Rogow
Frank Stearns
Karl G Sylvester
Eric Widen
Xuefeng B Ling
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description Identifying patients at risk of a 30-day readmission can help providers design interventions, and provide targeted care to improve clinical effectiveness. This study developed a risk model to predict a 30-day inpatient hospital readmission for patients in Maine, across all payers, all diseases and all demographic groups.Our objective was to develop a model to determine the risk for inpatient hospital readmission within 30 days post discharge. All patients within the Maine Health Information Exchange (HIE) system were included. The model was retrospectively developed on inpatient encounters between January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 from 24 randomly chosen hospitals, and then prospectively validated on inpatient encounters from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 using all HIE patients.A risk assessment tool partitioned the entire HIE population into subgroups that corresponded to probability of hospital readmission as determined by a corresponding positive predictive value (PPV). An overall model c-statistic of 0.72 was achieved. The total 30-day readmission rates in low (score of 0-30), intermediate (score of 30-70) and high (score of 70-100) risk groupings were 8.67%, 24.10% and 74.10%, respectively. A time to event analysis revealed the higher risk groups readmitted to a hospital earlier than the lower risk groups. Six high-risk patient subgroup patterns were revealed through unsupervised clustering. Our model was successfully integrated into the statewide HIE to identify patient readmission risk upon admission and daily during hospitalization or for 30 days subsequently, providing daily risk score updates.The risk model was validated as an effective tool for predicting 30-day readmissions for patients across all payer, disease and demographic groups within the Maine HIE. Exposing the key clinical, demographic and utilization profiles driving each patient's risk of readmission score may be useful to providers in developing individualized post discharge care plans.
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spelling doaj.art-ec3b7ddee9034b6f9b7c9f6b18bf77d72022-12-22T03:30:26ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-011010e014027110.1371/journal.pone.0140271Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.Shiying HaoYue WangBo JinAndrew Young ShinChunqing ZhuMin HuangLe ZhengJin LuoZhongkai HuChanglin FuDorothy DaiYicheng WangDevore S CulverShaun T AlfredsTodd RogowFrank StearnsKarl G SylvesterEric WidenXuefeng B LingIdentifying patients at risk of a 30-day readmission can help providers design interventions, and provide targeted care to improve clinical effectiveness. This study developed a risk model to predict a 30-day inpatient hospital readmission for patients in Maine, across all payers, all diseases and all demographic groups.Our objective was to develop a model to determine the risk for inpatient hospital readmission within 30 days post discharge. All patients within the Maine Health Information Exchange (HIE) system were included. The model was retrospectively developed on inpatient encounters between January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 from 24 randomly chosen hospitals, and then prospectively validated on inpatient encounters from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 using all HIE patients.A risk assessment tool partitioned the entire HIE population into subgroups that corresponded to probability of hospital readmission as determined by a corresponding positive predictive value (PPV). An overall model c-statistic of 0.72 was achieved. The total 30-day readmission rates in low (score of 0-30), intermediate (score of 30-70) and high (score of 70-100) risk groupings were 8.67%, 24.10% and 74.10%, respectively. A time to event analysis revealed the higher risk groups readmitted to a hospital earlier than the lower risk groups. Six high-risk patient subgroup patterns were revealed through unsupervised clustering. Our model was successfully integrated into the statewide HIE to identify patient readmission risk upon admission and daily during hospitalization or for 30 days subsequently, providing daily risk score updates.The risk model was validated as an effective tool for predicting 30-day readmissions for patients across all payer, disease and demographic groups within the Maine HIE. Exposing the key clinical, demographic and utilization profiles driving each patient's risk of readmission score may be useful to providers in developing individualized post discharge care plans.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4598005?pdf=render
spellingShingle Shiying Hao
Yue Wang
Bo Jin
Andrew Young Shin
Chunqing Zhu
Min Huang
Le Zheng
Jin Luo
Zhongkai Hu
Changlin Fu
Dorothy Dai
Yicheng Wang
Devore S Culver
Shaun T Alfreds
Todd Rogow
Frank Stearns
Karl G Sylvester
Eric Widen
Xuefeng B Ling
Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
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title Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
title_full Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
title_fullStr Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
title_full_unstemmed Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
title_short Development, Validation and Deployment of a Real Time 30 Day Hospital Readmission Risk Assessment Tool in the Maine Healthcare Information Exchange.
title_sort development validation and deployment of a real time 30 day hospital readmission risk assessment tool in the maine healthcare information exchange
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