Computational Barthel Index: an automated tool for assessing and predicting activities of daily living among nursing home patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of functional ability, including activities of daily living (ADLs), is a manual process completed by skilled health professionals. In the presented research, an automated decision support tool, the Computational Barthel Index Tool (CBIT), was constructed that can automatically assess and predict probabilities of current and future ADLs based on patients' medical history.

Methods

The data used to construct the tool include the demographic information, inpatient and outpatient diagnosis codes, and reported disabilities of 181,213 residents of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Community Living Centers. Supervised machine learning methods were applied to construct the CBIT. Temporal information about times from the first and the most recent occurrenc

SUBMITTER: Wojtusiak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7796534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature