CMAF Friday Forecasting Talks
Friday 16 February 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Predicting emergency admissions to hospital specialties using real-time data from Electronic Health Records: A Machine Learning application in operational use.
Hospitals in the UK are currently at capacity for much of the time. Bed planners have the difficult job of ensuring enough emergency beds are available within each clinical speciality, to avoid admission delays and outlying patients. In previous work [1] we reported on an analytical pipeline that applied Machine Learning to real-time health record data to predict aggregate numbers of emergency admissions in the next 8 hours. That application has been in operational use by bed planners at UCLH for over a year to help them manage patient flow into the hospital.
Since then, I have been working as an embedded researcher alongside the bed planners at UCLH. Building on a richer knowledge of their role, I will describe the work of bed planners and their use of data products, and explain how we re-formulated the modelling problem and the technical implementation to make our application better meshed with what they need to know. My talk will cover both the academic elements of the work (the problem framing and formulation, and evaluation of model performance), and the practical aspects of engagement with bed managers and their wider system to achieve an application supported by UCLH as part of their business-as-usual suite of data products.
[1] King, Z., Farrington, J., Utley, M. et al. Machine learning for real-time aggregated prediction of hospital admission for emergency patients. npj Digit. Med. 5, 104 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00649-y
Speaker
University College London
Zella King gained her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and her PhD in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College. From 2000 to 2014 she had an academic career in business schools teaching Human Resource Management. Her work on careers and research networks has been published in top business journals. She was awarded two ESRC grants and in 2007 a prestigious fellowship of the Advanced Institute of Management. In 2014 she took time out of academia to co-found a training
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