Annals of family medicine
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Annals of family medicine · Jul 2020
Using Machine Learning to Predict Primary Care and Advance Workforce Research.
To develop and test a machine-learning-based model to predict primary care and other specialties using Medicare claims data. ⋯ This novel approach showed high performance and provides a near real-time assessment of current primary care practice. These findings have important implications for primary care workforce research in the absence of accurate data.