by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Oct 4, 2016 | Healthcare Data, Methodology
Suppose you’re about to undergo a complicated surgical procedure to remove an embolism in your carotid artery. The chief surgeon tells you that he has a new high-powered laser that is great at dissolving clots. Sounds great, right? But when you ask if the operation is...
by Marijean Jaggers | Jun 13, 2016 | Healthcare Data
So you’re going to develop a model that predicts a specific healthcare outcome. You’ve been fortunate in that your dataset has information from 100,000 admissions: 25,000 each from the previous four years (2012 through 2015). First and foremost, you can’t use all...
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