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Predicting Kidney Transplant Recipient Cohorts' 30-Day Rehospitalization Using Clinical Notes and Electronic Health Care Record Data

Arenson, Michael
Hogan, Julien
Xu, Liyan
Lynch, Raymond
Lee, Yi-Ting Hana
Choi, Jinho D
Sun, Jimeng
Adams, Andrew
Patzer, Rachel E
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Introduction: Rehospitalization after kidney transplant is costly to patients and health care systems and is associated with poor outcomes. Few prediction model studies have examined whether inclusion of clinical notes data from the electronic medical record (EMR) enhances prediction of rehospitalization.

Methods: In a retrospective, observational study of first-time, adult kidney transplant recipients at a large, urban hospital in southeastern United States (2005-2015), we examined 30-day rehospitalization (30DR) using structured EMR and unstructured (i.e., clinical notes) data. We used natural language processing (NLP) methods on 8 types of clinical notes and included terms in predictive models using unsupervised machine learning approaches. Both the area under the receiver operating curve and precision-recall curve (ROC and PRC, respectively) were used to determine and compare model accuracy, and 5-fold cross-validation tested model performance.

Results: Among 2060 kidney transplant recipients, 30.7% were readmitted within 30 days. Predictive models using clinical notes did not meaningfully improve performance over previous models using structured data alone (ROC 0.6821; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.6644, 0.6998). Predictive models built using solely clinical notes performed worse than models using both clinical notes and structured data. The data that contributed to the top performing models were not identical but both included structured data and progress notes (ROC 0.6902; 95% CI: 0.6699, 0.7105).

Conclusions: Including new features from clinical notes in risk prediction models did not substantially increase predictive accuracy for 30DR for kidney transplant recipients. Future research should consider pooling data from multiple institutions to increase sample size and avoid overfitting models.

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Arenson M, Hogan J, Xu L, Lynch R, Lee YH, Choi JD, Sun J, Adams A, Patzer RE. Predicting Kidney Transplant Recipient Cohorts' 30-Day Rehospitalization Using Clinical Notes and Electronic Health Care Record Data. Kidney Int Rep. 2022 Dec 12;8(3):489-498. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2022.12.006. PMID: 36938078; PMCID: PMC10014371.

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10.1016/j.ekir.2022.12.006
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Copyright 2022 Published by Elsevier, Inc., on behalf of the International Society of Nephrology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International