Health informatics journal
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Health Informatics J · Mar 2015
ReviewDevelopment of an automated model to predict the risk of elderly emergency medical admissions within a month following an index hospital visit: a Hong Kong experience.
To develop an automated risk prediction model to identify elderly patients at high risk of emergency admission to medical wards within 28 days following an index hospital visit. ⋯ This simple, accurate and objective risk prediction model has been computerized into an automated screening tool to recruit high-risk elderly patients discharged from all public hospitals in Hong Kong into the Community Health Call Centre service with an aim to prevent avoidable hospitalizations.