Published on in Vol 12 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/48128, first published .
Effectiveness of an Emergency Department–Based Machine Learning Clinical Decision Support Tool to Prevent Outpatient Falls Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study

Effectiveness of an Emergency Department–Based Machine Learning Clinical Decision Support Tool to Prevent Outpatient Falls Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study

Effectiveness of an Emergency Department–Based Machine Learning Clinical Decision Support Tool to Prevent Outpatient Falls Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study

Daniel J Hekman   1 , MS ;   Amy L Cochran   2 , PhD ;   Apoorva P Maru   1 , BSc ;   Hanna J Barton   3 , MS, PhD ;   Manish N Shah   1 , MPH, MD ;   Douglas Wiegmann   3 , PhD ;   Maureen A Smith   4 , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Frank Liao   5 , PhD ;   Brian W Patterson   1 , MPH, MD

1 BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

2 Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

3 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

4 Health Innovation Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

5 Department of Applied Data Science, UWHealth Hospitals and Clinics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Brian W Patterson, MPH, MD
  • BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 800 University Bay Drive
  • Suite 310
  • Madison, WI, 53705
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 608-265-6043
  • Email: bpatter@medicine.wisc.edu