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