Develop and validate a fair machine learning model to identify patients with high data-continuity in electronic health records data.
Electronic health record (EHR) data discontinuity, defined as receiving care outside of a particular EHR system, may cause misclassification of study variables. We aimed to: (1) quantify misclassification across levels of EHR data discontinuity and identify an optimal continuity threshold, (2) develop a machine learning (ML) model to predict EHR continuity and optimize fairness across racial and ethnic groups, and (3) externally validate the EHR continuity prediction model using an [...]
Author(s): Lee, Yao An, Tang, Tiange, Huang, Yu, Bian, Jiang, Shi, Lizheng, Guo, Jingchuan
DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooag124