Bruce L. Hall

American College of Surgeons NSQIP Hospital Benchmarking Using Bayesian Variational Inference to Adjust for Many CPT Codes.

BACKGROUND Current ACS NSQIP benchmarking relies primarily on the principal Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for procedure-related risk adjustment because conventional regression methods cannot efficiently accommodate numerous sparse CPT variables. Although CatBoost (CATB) can incorporate multiple CPT codes to...