Improving Models to Predict Care Utilization Using Machine Learning: Retrospective Observational Study

Christopher Kitchen   ^{1 *} , MS ;   Talan Zhang   ^{1 *} , MS, MPH ;   Klaus Lemke   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Chintan Pandya   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MPH, PhD ;   Hadi Kharrazi   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Jonathan P Weiner   ¹ , DrPH

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

² Center for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

*these authors contributed equally