Publications by authors named "Kirsty Barnes"
Readmission Risk Based on Debility and Psychosocial Measures: The Western 9 Algorithm.
Stud Health Technol Inform
January 2024
Article Synopsis
- A study emphasizes the role of psychosocial factors like food insecurity and education in shaping health outcomes.
- Western Health created nine screening questions (the Western 9) to assess these psychosocial factors in patients under the HealthLinks Chronic Care initiative and to categorize them into Low, Medium, or High risk profiles.
- Results indicate that incorporating the Western 9 into existing readmission risk models enhanced their accuracy, with suggestions for future improvements like creating weighted indices for even better model performance.
The aim of the current study was to investigate the social relationships between individual sheep, and factors that influence this, through the novel application of the statistical multiple membership multiple classification (MMMC) model. In study one 49 ewes (ranging between 1 and 8 years old) were fitted with data loggers, which recorded when pairs of sheep were within 4m or less of each other, within a social group, for a total of 6days. In study two proximity data were collected from 45 ewes over 17days, as were measures of ewe temperament, weight and weather.
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