Crucial Events
What utilization patterns are evident before and after a crucial event such as hospitalization or care management initiation?
A specialized data structure is required to investigate changes in utilization related to a crucial event. The crucialevent table contains a row for each instance of an event such as a hospitalization, ED visit, initiation of care management, or a specified service/procedure. Columns in this table describe utilization in time periods relative to the date of the event.
By normalizing events into this structure, features that describe the event can be computed relative to the event date. Using this structure, events can be readily compared and summarized to determine relationships and patterns in utilization and observations that occur before and after the event.
Key Questions of Interest
- How does utilization change after the event?
- How long after the event does it take for utilization to return to a baseline, pre-event level?
Bulk Data API Requirements
Dashboards that address these key questions can leverage the following tables within the Bulk Data API data model:
