Healthcare Process Modeling to Phenotype Clinician Behaviors for Exploiting the Signal Gain of Clinical Expertise (HPM-ExpertSignals): Development and evaluation of a conceptual framework |
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| Authors: | Sarah Collins Rossetti Chris Knaplund Dave Albers Patricia C Dykes Min Jeoung Kang Tom Z Korach Li Zhou Kumiko Schnock Jose Garcia Jessica Schwartz Li-Heng Fu Jeffrey G Klann Graham Lowenthal Kenrick Cato |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA;2. School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA;3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA;4. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;5. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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ObjectiveThere are signals of clinicians’ expert and knowledge-driven behaviors within clinical information systems (CIS) that can be exploited to support clinical prediction. Describe development of the Healthcare Process Modeling Framework to Phenotype Clinician Behaviors for Exploiting the Signal Gain of Clinical Expertise (HPM-ExpertSignals).Materials and MethodsWe employed an iterative framework development approach that combined data-driven modeling and simulation testing to define and refine a process for phenotyping clinician behaviors. Our framework was developed and evaluated based on the Communicating Narrative Concerns Entered by Registered Nurses (CONCERN) predictive model to detect and leverage signals of clinician expertise for prediction of patient trajectories.ResultsSeven themes—identified during development and simulation testing of the CONCERN model—informed framework development. The HPM-ExpertSignals conceptual framework includes a 3-step modeling technique: (1) identify patterns of clinical behaviors from user interaction with CIS; (2) interpret patterns as proxies of an individual’s decisions, knowledge, and expertise; and (3) use patterns in predictive models for associations with outcomes. The CONCERN model differentiated at risk patients earlier than other early warning scores, lending confidence to the HPM-ExpertSignals framework.DiscussionThe HPM-ExpertSignals framework moves beyond transactional data analytics to model clinical knowledge, decision making, and CIS interactions, which can support predictive modeling with a focus on the rapid and frequent patient surveillance cycle.ConclusionsWe propose this framework as an approach to embed clinicians’ knowledge-driven behaviors in predictions and inferences to facilitate capture of healthcare processes that are activated independently, and sometimes well before, physiological changes are apparent. |
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| Keywords: | electronic health records predictive modeling clinical informatics conceptual framework |
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