Systems and methods for identifying risk of infection in dialysis patients

A method and system for determining a patient's risk of developing an infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system and method includes extracting patient data from one or more databases corresponding to a pool of patients receiving treatment; using one or more predictive models with th...

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Hauptverfasser: Chatoth, Dinesh K, Willetts, Joanna L, Ellison, Brian C, Blanchard, Thomas C, Moran, Judith E, Herman, Melissa C, Usvyat, Len
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method and system for determining a patient's risk of developing an infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system and method includes extracting patient data from one or more databases corresponding to a pool of patients receiving treatment; using one or more predictive models with the extracted patient data to generate, for each of the patients in the pool of patients, a respective patient risk score for developing an infection within a selected time period; generating a report including at least a portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients and their respective patient risk scores; and transmitting the report to one or more health care facilities, the one or more health care facilities further identifying one or more patients from the portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients for interventional treatment, consultation, training, or combinations thereof.