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- Title
Using machine learning approaches to predict high-cost chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in China.
- Authors
Luo, Li; Li, Jialing; Lian, Shuhao; Zeng, Xiaoxi; Sun, Lin; Li, Chunyang; Huang, Debin; Zhang, Wei
- Abstract
The accurate identification and prediction of high-cost Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients is important for addressing the economic burden of COPD. The objectives of this study were to use machine learning approaches to identify and predict potential high-cost patients and explore the key variables of the forecasting model, by comparing differences in the predictive performance of different variable sets. Machine learning approaches were used to estimate the medical costs of COPD patients using the Medical Insurance Data of a large city in western China. The prediction models used were logistic regression, random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). All three models had good predictive performance. The XGBoost model outperformed the others. The areas under the ROC curve for Logistic Regression, RF and XGBoost were 0.787, 0.792 and 0.801. The precision and accuracy metrics indicated that the methods achieved correct and reliable results. The results of this study can be used by healthcare data analysts, policy makers, insurers, and healthcare planners to improve the delivery of health services.
- Subjects
CHINA; ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE intervals; COST control; ECONOMIC aspects of diseases; FORECASTING; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; MACHINE learning; MEDICAL care costs; RESEARCH funding; LOGISTIC regression analysis; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; PREDICTION models; PREDICTIVE validity; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RANDOM forest algorithms
- Publication
Health Informatics Journal, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 3, p1577
- ISSN
1460-4582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1460458219881335