readmission {readmission} | R Documentation |
Hospital Readmission Data for Patients with Diabetes
Description
Clinical care data from 130 U.S. hospitals in years 1999-2008. Each row describes an "encounter" with a patient with diabetes, including variables on demographics, medications, patient history, diagnostics, payment, and readmission.
Usage
readmission
Format
A data frame with 71,515 rows and 12 columns:
- readmitted
Whether the patient was readmitted within the 30 days following discharge. A factor with levels
"Yes"
and"No"
.- race
Reported race of the patient. Source data does not document data collection strategy. A factor with levels
"African American"
,"Asian"
,"Caucasian"
,"Hispanic"
,"Other"
, and"Unknown"
.- sex
Reported sex of the patient. Source data does not document data collection strategy. A factor with levels
"Female"
and"Male"
.- age
Age range for the patient, binned in 10-year intervals. A factor with levels
"[0-10)"
,"[10-20)"
,"[20-30)"
,"[30-40)"
,"[40-50)"
,"[50-60)"
,"[60-70)"
,"[70-80)"
,"[80-90)"
, and"[90-100)"
.- admission_source
Whether the patient was referred from a physician, admitted via the ER, or arrived via some other source. A factor with levels
"Emergency"
,"Other"
, and"Referral"
.- blood_glucose
Results from an A1C test, estimating the patient's average blood sugar over the past 2-3 months. Higher estimated average blood glucose levels are linked to diabetes complications. A factor with levels
"Normal"
,"High"
, and"Very High"
, and many missing values.- insurer
The health insurance provider (or lack thereof, via
"Self-Pay"
) for the patient. A factor with levels"Medicaid"
,"Medicare"
,"Private"
, and"Self-Pay"
, and many missing values.- duration
Number of days in the hospital between admission and discharge.
- n_previous_visits
Number of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient visits in the year preceding the encounter.
- n_diagnoses
"Number of diagnoses entered to the system" during the encounter.
- n_procedures
"Number of procedures (other than lab tests) performed" during the encounter.
- n_medications
"Number of distinct generic names administered" during the encounter.
Source
Original source data from the following paper (CC BY 3.0):
Strack, B., DeShazo, J. P., Gennings, C., Olmo, J. L., Ventura, S., Cios, K. J., & Clore, J. N. 2014. Impact of HbA1c measurement on hospital readmission rates: analysis of 70,000 clinical database patient records. BioMed research international, 781670. doi:10.1155/2014/781670.
Shared freely through the UCI Machine Learning Repository (CC BY 4.0):
Clore, J., Cios, K., DeShazo, J. P., and Strack, B. 2014. Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008. UCI Machine Learning Repository. doi:10.24432/C5230J.
Downloaded from resources shared by the Fairlearn team (MIT):
Weerts, H., DudÃk M., Edgar, R., Jalali, A., Lutz, R., & Madaio, M. 2023. Fairlearn: Assessing and Improving Fairness of AI Systems. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(257):1-8.
Examples
str(readmission)
head(readmission)