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- Title
Risk score models for urinary tract infection hospitalization.
- Authors
Alizadeh, Nasrin; Vahdat, Kimia; Shashaani, Sara; Swann, Julie L.; Özaltιn, Osman Y.
- Abstract
Annually, urinary tract infections (UTIs) affect over a hundred million people worldwide. Early detection of high-risk individuals can help prevent hospitalization for UTIs, which imposes significant economic and social burden on patients and caregivers. We present two methods to generate risk score models for UTI hospitalization. We utilize a sample of patients from the insurance claims data provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and validate the proposed methods. Our dataset encompasses a wide range of features, such as demographics, medical history, and healthcare utilization of the patients along with provider quality metrics and community-based metrics. The proposed methods scale and round the coefficients of an underlying logistic regression model to create scoring tables. We present computational experiments to evaluate the prediction performance of both models. We also discuss different features of these models with respect to their impact on interpretability. Our findings emphasize the effectiveness of risk score models as practical tools for identifying high-risk patients and provide a quantitative assessment of the significance of various risk factors in UTI hospitalizations such as admission to ICU in the last 3 months, cognitive disorders and low inpatient, outpatient and carrier costs in the last 6 months.
- Subjects
CENTERS for Medicare &; Medicaid Services (U.S.); DISEASE risk factors; URINARY tract infections; HOSPITAL care; INSURANCE claims; COGNITION disorders; LOGISTIC regression analysis
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0290215