The identification of clusters of risk factors and their association with hospitalizations or emergency department visits in home health care.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify clusters of risk factors in home health care and determine if the clusters are associated with hospitalizations or emergency department visits.

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Methods

This study included 61,454 patients pertaining to 79,079 episodes receiving home health care between 2015 and 2017 from one of the largest home health care organizations in the United States. Potential risk factors were extracted from structured data and unstructured clinical notes analysed by natural language processing. A K-means cluster analysis was conducted. Kaplan-Meier analysis was conducted to identify the association between clusters and hospitalizations or emergency department visits during home health care.

Results

A total of 11.6% of home health e

SUBMITTER: Song J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163408 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature