Assessing Palliative Care Needs Using Machine Learning Approaches

Palliative care improves quality of life for patients and their families when facing a life-threatening illness. Studies have shown that physicians tend to over-estimate prognoses, which in combination with treatment inertia results in underutilization of end-of-life care plans. In our study, we apply machine learning methods to patients’ Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to predict patients who...