Long stay stratification tool
Benefits
- Detected 66% of long stayers within highest risk categories - Economic benefits: a single-day reduction in average stay yields £1.7m in savings for Gloucester Hospitals alone - Potential health benefits by avoiding negative outcomes associated with extended stays (11% mortality rate for long stayers vs 5% for all admissions; 23% chance of becoming unwell again after discharge vs 1% for others; in over 80s, loss of 10 years' muscle mass in just 10 days) - Enables interventions like increased walking or daily physiotherapy that are known to reduce overall stay
Details
- Tool name
- Long stay stratification tool
- Organisation
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- supervised, Machine Learning
- AI method (normalised tags)
- supervised Machine Learning
- Usecase
- Predictive Analytics
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) and NHS AI Lab
- Date added
- 4 September 2023
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Tool produces immediate long stayer risk score to help avoid known risk factors in hospital patients. [Source]