Weighting primary care patient panel size: A novel electronic health record-derived measure using machine learning

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Rajkomar, Alvin ^a   Yim, Joanne Wing Lan ^b   Grumbach, Kevin ^a,b   Parekh, Ami ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Health care economics and organizations; Machine learning; Medical informatics; Patient acceptance of health care; Primary health care; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057246930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.6530     Document Type: Article

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