Incoprea Theory
Vol. XXIX · 109

Theory 53/New analysis/Health services

Comorbidity Clusters Predict

The claim

Readmission is predicted by comorbidity cluster structure better than by the count of diagnoses.

01Mechanism

Certain combinations interact to produce instability that a simple sum cannot capture.

02Prediction

Cluster membership should predict better than count.

03Refutation

Count predicting equally would remove the structure.