Grant gives scientists chance to advance tools to predict readmission in diabetic patients

(Temple University Health System) Thanks to $2.5M from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Lewis Katz School of Medicine researchers are poised to better predict which patients with diabetes are likely to experience additional hospital visits. Building from a model generated at Temple and known as the Diabetes Early Readmission Risk Indicator, they aim to develop models that accurately and automatically predict 30-day readmission risk among patients with diabete...