Predicting Life Expectancy to Target Cancer Screening Using Electronic Health Record Clinical Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines recommend breast and colorectal cancer screening for older adults with a life expectancy >10 years. Most mortality indexes require clinician data entry, presenting a barrier for routine use in care. Electronic health records (EHR) are a rich clinical data source that could be used to create individualized life expectancy predictions to identify patients for cancer screening without data entry.

Objective

To develop and internally validate a life expectancy calculator from structured EHR data.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using national Veteran's Affairs (VA) EHR databases.

Patients

Veterans aged 50+ with a primary care visit during 2005.

Main measures

We assessed demographics, diseases, medications, laboratory results, healthcar

SUBMITTER: Lee AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858374 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature