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Lee, Alexandra K., Jing, Bocheng, Jeon, Sun Y., Boscardin, W. John, Lee, Sei J. |
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JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine; Feb2022, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p499-506, 8p, 2 Charts, 3 Graphs |
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Background: Guidelines recommend breast and colorectal cancer screening for older adults with a life expectancy >10 years. Most mortality indexes require clinician data entry, presenting a barrier for routine use in care. Electronic health records (EHR) are a rich clinical data source that could be used to create individualized life expectancy predictions to identify patients for cancer screening without data entry. Objective: To develop and internally validate a life expectancy calculator from structured EHR data. Design: Retrospective cohort study using national Veteran's Affairs (VA) EHR databases. Patients: Veterans aged 50+ with a primary care visit during 2005. Main Measures: We assessed demographics, diseases, medications, laboratory results, healthcare utilization, and vital signs 1 year prior to the index visit. Mortality follow-up was complete through 2017. Using the development cohort (80% sample), we used LASSO Cox regression to select ~100 predictors from 913 EHR data elements. In the validation cohort (remaining 20% sample), we calculated the integrated area under the curve (iAUC) and evaluated calibration. Key Results: In 3,705,122 patients, the mean age was 68 years and the majority were male (97%) and white (85%); nearly half (49%) died. The life expectancy calculator included 93 predictors; age and gender most strongly contributed to discrimination; diseases also contributed significantly while vital signs were negligible. The iAUC was 0.816 (95% confidence interval, 0.815, 0.817) with good calibration. Conclusions: We developed a life expectancy calculator using VA EHR data with excellent discrimination and calibration. Automated life expectancy prediction using EHR data may improve guideline-concordant breast and colorectal cancer screening by identifying patients with a life expectancy >10 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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