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Prediction of High Risk of Deviations in Home Care Deliveries
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PMLR 138:281-292, 2020.
Abstract
This paper presents a real-world application of Bayesian networks to
support existing home care quality supervision. In Denmark home
care is delivered by municipalities, where the individual citizen is
free to select the service provider, private or public. The aim of
our work is to support the home care control process by identifying
significant deviations automatically, pointing to reasons for a
significant deviation and identifying future home care deliveries
where there is a high probability of deviation between granted and
delivered care to the individual citizen. Home care is granted as
packages of time measured in minutes and we define a too high
delivery rate as larger than $150%$. In the municipality under
study in this work (municipality of Hj{ø}rring), the supervision of
home care delivery is a manual and time consuming process prone to
human error. This paper presents the results of efforts to automate
parts of the supervision using Bayesian network modelling and data
analysis. The results of the pilot study shows significant potential
in applying Bayesian network modelling and data analysis to this
challenge for the benefit of the municipality, the employees and the
citizens.