An Integrated Framework for Reducing Hospital Readmissions using Risk Trajectories Characterization and Discharge Timing Optimization release_qqou4wusuzdw7b4xytjtn63g2i

by Adel Alaeddini, Dr Jonathan E. Helm, Dr Pengyi Shi, Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui

Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering by Informa UK Limited.

2019   Volume 9, Issue 2, p1-26

Abstract

When patients leave the hospital for lower levels of care, they experience a risk of adverse events on a daily basis. The advent of value-based purchasing among other major initiatives has led to an increasing emphasis on reducing the occurrences of these post-discharge adverse events. This has spurred the development of new prediction technologies to identify which patients are at risk for an adverse event as well as actions to mitigate those risks. Those actions include pre-discharge and post-discharge interventions to reduce risk. However, traditional prediction models have been developed to support only post-discharge actions; predicting risk of adverse events at the time of discharge only. In this paper we develop an integrated framework of risk prediction and discharge optimization that supports both types of interventions: discharge timing and post-discharge monitoring. Our method combines a kernel approach for capturing the non-linear relationship between length of stay and risk of an adverse event, with a Principle Component Analysis method that makes the resulting estimation tractable. We then demonstrate how this prediction model could be used to support both types of interventions by developing a simple and easily implementable discharge timing optimization.
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