Predicting rehabilitation needs and trajectories in older patients
Mr Konstantin Georgiev
Ageing and later life
An ageing population is a major success of modern healthcare, but this challenges the NHS to better support an increasingly frail hospital population. One third of older people acquire new disability by discharge, leaving hospital with less independence than before getting ill. Rehabilitation attempts to maximise recovery, but this is not well targeted to people at highest risk of disability, as the risk factors are not well understood. However, electronic health records now routinely hold information about rehabilitation progress. In this project, we will use methods like machine learni...
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