Optimizing Patient Placement in Normal Care Units: An Instrumental Causal Forest Approach Minimizing Mortality
普通病区患者安置优化:以工具变量因果森林降低死亡率
Normal care units (NCU) placement affects health outcomes. NCUs in a hospital have different specialisations. There are patients that can potentially stay in multiple different NCUs. On a given day the NCUs are on different utilisation levels, which also affects health outcomes. Our approach uses instrumental variable causal forests, with emergency admission as an instrument, to estimate how the effect of NCU placement varies across patients and utilisation levels. The…