Using automated speech processing to improve identification of risk for hospitalizations and emergency department visits in home healthcare

使用自动语音处理来改进家庭医疗保健中住院和急诊室就诊的风险识别

• 批准号: 10638400
• 负责人: Julia B. Hirschberg
• 金额: $ 68.58万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10638400
• 关键词: Acoustics; Address; Care given by nurses; Caregiver support; Caring; Characteristics; Clinical; Communication; Data; Data Science; Data Set; Data Sources; Databases; Dementia; Detection; Deterioration; Edema; Elderly; Electronic Health Record; Emergency department visit; Engineering; Event; Family; Formal caregiver; Frequencies; Future; Genetic Transcription; Goals; Health Care Research; Health Care Visit; Heart failure; Home Care Services; Home Health Care Agencies; Hospitalization; Hour; Human; Intervention; Knowledge; Linguistics; Machine Learning; Measurement; Methods; Modeling; Natural Language Processing; Nurses; Patient Care; Patient risk; Patients; Performance; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction; Series; Standardization; Suicide; System; Techniques; United States; Variant; Visiting Nurse; Voice; Work; acceptability and feasibility; care episode; clinical care; clinically significant; data streams; feature selection; improved; improved outcome; lexical; medication nonadherence; model development; prevent; risk prediction; risk prediction model; speech processing; trend; verbal

PROJECT SUMMARY Every year, about 11,000 home healthcare (HHC) agencies across the United States provide care to more than 5 million older adults. Currently, about one in three HHC patients are hospitalized or visit an emergency department (ED) and up to 40% of these events are preventable with appropriate and timely care. However, these numbers have not improved over the last decade, despite national and local quality improvement efforts. Recent advances in a subfield of data science—automated speech processing—have unlocked an untapped rich data stream that can improve risk identification by analyzing nurse-patient verbal communication. The proposed study brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts in home healthcare nursing, automated speech processing, natural language processing, and risk model development to explore whether automated speech processing can improve timely identification of patients at risk in home healthcare and potentially reduce their hospitalizations and ED visits. Specifically, the aims of this study are: Aim 1: Refine and finalize an automated speech processing system to identify hospitalization and ED visit risk factors in patient-nurse verbal communications. Aim 2: Explore to what extent data extracted from patient-nurse communications can improve risk prediction for hospitalizations and ED visits, when compared against the risk model based on electronic health record data only. This study will build a first-of-a-kind hospitalization and ED visit risk model that automatically incorporates data from patient-nurse verbal communication. In future work, this risk model can be integrated into home healthcare clinical workflows to trigger timely and personalized alerts about concerning patient trends, which will in turn activate appropriate and timely care to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and ED visits from HHC.

项目摘要 每年，美国大约有11,000个家庭医疗保健（HHC）机构为更多 超过500万老年人。目前，大约三分之一的HHC患者住院或访问紧急情况 部门（ED）和多达40％的事件可以通过适当和及时的照顾来预防。然而， 在过去的十年中，这些数字没有得到改善，目的地是国家和地方质量的改进工作。 数据科学子领域的最新进展（自动语音处理）已解锁 未开发的丰富数据流，可以通过分析护士患者口头来改善风险识别 沟通。拟议的研究将家庭医疗保健专家跨学科团队汇集在一起 护士，自动语音处理，自然语言处理和风险模型开发以探索 自动语音处理是否可以改善家庭医疗保健风险患者的及时确定 并有可能减少他们的住院和ED访问。 具体而言，这项研究的目的是：目标1：完善和最终确定自动语音处理系统 确定住院和ED访问患者言语通信中的危险因素。目标2：探索 从患者沟通中提取的数据何种程度可以改善住院的风险预测 与ED访问相比，仅基于电子健康记录数据进行比较。 这项研究将建立首个住院和ED访问风险模型，该模型自动合并 来自患者和言语交流的数据。在将来的工作中，可以将这种风险模型集成到家庭中 医疗保健临床工作流程以触发有关患者趋势的及时和个性化警报， 反过来，将激活适当和及时的护理，以防止HHC可避免的住院和ED访问。