A Roadmap for Boosting Model Generalizability for Predicting Hospital Encounters for Asthma (Preprint)

Author:

Luo GangORCID

Abstract

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In the United States, ~9% of people have asthma. Each year, asthma incurs high health care cost and many hospital encounters covering 1.8 million emergency room visits and 439,000 hospitalizations. A small percentage of patients with asthma use most health care resources. To improve outcomes and cut resource use, many health care systems use predictive models to prospectively find high-risk patients and enroll them in care management for preventive care. For maximal benefit from costly care management with limited service capacity, only patients at the highest risk should be enrolled. However, prior models built by others miss >50% of true highest-risk patients and mislabel many low-risk patients as high risk, leading to suboptimal care and wasted resources. To address this issue, 3 site-specific models were recently built to predict hospital encounters for asthma, gaining up to >11% better performance. However, these models do not generalize well across sites and patient subgroups, creating 2 gaps before translating these models into clinical use. This paper points out these 2 gaps and outlines 2 corresponding solutions: (1) a new machine learning technique to create cross-site generalizable predictive models to accurately find high-risk patients and (2) a new machine learning technique to automatically raise model performance for poorly performing subgroups while maintaining model performance on other subgroups. This gives a roadmap for future research.

Publisher

JMIR Publications Inc.

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