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Hospital readmission is a crucial healthcare quality measure that helps in determining the level of quality of care that a hospital offers to a patient and has proven to be immensely expensive. It is estimated that more than $25 billion are spent yearly due to readmission of diabetic patients in the USA. This paper benchmarks existing models and proposes a new embedding-based state-of-the-art deep neural network(DNN). The model can identify whether a hospitalized diabetic patient will be readmitted within 30 days or not with an accuracy of 95.2% and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristics (AUROC) of 97.4% on data collected from 130 US hospitals between 1999 and 2008. The results are encouraging with patients having changes in medication while admitted having a high chance of getting readmitted. Identifying prospective patients for readmission could help the hospital systems in improving their inpatient care, thereby saving them from unnecessary expenditures.
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Sarthak, Shukla, S., Prakash Tripathi, S. (2021). EmbPred30: Assessing 30-Days Readmission for Diabetic Patients Using Categorical Embeddings. In: Tiwari, S., Trivedi, M., Mishra, K., Misra, A., Kumar, K., Suryani, E. (eds) Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1168. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5345-5_7
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