Hard for humans, hard for machines: predicting readmission after psychiatric hospitalization using narrative notes

Abstract Machine learning has been suggested as a means of identifying individuals at greatest risk for hospital readmission, including psychiatric readmission. We sought to compare the performance of predictive models that use interpretable representations derived via topic modeling to the performa...

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Main Authors: William Boag, Olga Kovaleva, Thomas H. McCoy, Anna Rumshisky, Peter Szolovits, Roy H. Perlis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01104-w