Acute Care Utilisation

Benefits

Comparisons

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Highlighted claims

• Acute care utilisation was defined as at least one hospitalisation or emergency department visit during the outcome window. — Integrating healthcare system context to improve risk prediction and assess racial disparities among dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries: a retrospective cohort study using national fee-for-service claims
• The System Context XGBoost model improved acute care sensitivity over clinical-only logistic regression while maintaining high specificity. — Integrating healthcare system context to improve risk prediction and assess racial disparities among dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries: a retrospective cohort study using national fee-for-service claims
• Optimizing the classification threshold increased sensitivity but reduced specificity. — Integrating healthcare system context to improve risk prediction and assess racial disparities among dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries: a retrospective cohort study using national fee-for-service claims
• The optimized model captured a larger share of total medical spending and missed less spending than the baseline model. — Integrating healthcare system context to improve risk prediction and assess racial disparities among dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries: a retrospective cohort study using national fee-for-service claims
• The six-month outcome window was chosen to support real-world forecasting and care-management decisions. — Integrating healthcare system context to improve risk prediction and assess racial disparities among dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries: a retrospective cohort study using national fee-for-service claims