Forecasting Daily COVID-19 Related Calls in VA Health Care System: Predictive Model Development

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13980v2
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:29:08 GMT
• Title: Forecasting Daily COVID-19 Related Calls in VA Health Care System: Predictive Model Development
• Authors: Weipeng Zhou, Ryan J. Laundry, Paul L. Hebert, Gang Luo
• Abstract summary: The study aims to develop a method to forecast the daily number of COVID-19 related calls for each of the 110 VA medical centers. In the proposed method, we pre-trained a model using a cluster of medical centers and fine-tuned it for individual medical centers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Background: COVID-19 has become a challenge worldwide and properly planning of medical resources is the key to combating COVID-19. In the US Veteran Affairs Health Care System (VA), many of the enrollees are susceptible to COVID-19. Predicting the COVID-19 to allocate medical resources promptly becomes a critical issue. When the VA enrollees have COVID-19 symptoms, it is recommended that their first step should be to call the VA Call Center. For confirmed COVID-19 patients, the median time from the first symptom to hospital admission was seven days. By predicting the number of COVID-19 related calls, we could predict imminent surges in healthcare use and plan medical resources ahead. Objective: The study aims to develop a method to forecast the daily number of COVID-19 related calls for each of the 110 VA medical centers. Methods: In the proposed method, we pre-trained a model using a cluster of medical centers and fine-tuned it for individual medical centers. At the cluster level, we performed feature selection to select significant features and automatic hyper-parameter search to select optimal hyper-parameter value combinations for the model. Conclusions: This study proposed an accurate method to forecast the daily number of COVID-19 related calls for VA medical centers. The proposed method was able to overcome modeling challenges by grouping similar medical centers into clusters to enlarge the dataset for training models, and using hyper-parameter search to automatically find optimal hyper-parameter value combinations for models. With the proposed method, surges in health care can be predicted ahead. This allows health care practitioners to better plan medical resources and combat COVID-19.

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