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Health·G Space·Evidence-backed gain·Published 2026-08-26

Adaptation of a fair individualized polysocial risk score for hospitalization risk prediction

Abstract: Objectives We adapted the individualized polysocial risk score (iPsRS), a machine learning model originally developed for patients with type 2 diabetes, to evaluate its generalizability in predicting 1-year hospitalization risk in a disease-agnostic adult cohort, with attention to fairness and explainability. Materials and methods The study utilized de-identified electronic health record data from a retrospective cohort of 17 857 adult patients at the University of Florida Health. The original iPsRS framework wa…

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Adaptation of a fair individualized polysocial risk score for hospitalization risk prediction

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The quick read

Researchers adapted the individualized polysocial risk score, originally built for type 2 diabetes, to a disease-agnostic cohort of 17,857 adults at University of Florida Health. Using 13 individual-level social determinants of health, they trained XGBoost and logistic regression models to predict all-cause hospitalization within one year, testing multiple fine-tuning levels and sampling strategies.

The adapted model reached moderate discrimination with AUROC up to 0.671 and highlighted social factors like food insecurity, marital status, and financial constraints alongside age as key predictors. The work suggests SDoH-informed models can extend beyond diabetes for equity-aware risk stratification, though performance remains moderate and validation is limited to a single retrospective EHR dataset as of the August 2026 publication.

Main points
  • Study used de-identified EHR data from 17,857 adult patients at University of Florida Health to reimplement iPsRS originally for type 2 diabetes.
  • Models were XGBoost and Logistic Regression trained with 13 individual-level SDoH predictors and fine-tuned at 5 levels with 3 sampling strategies.
  • SHAP analysis showed age, food insecurity, marital status, and financial constraints as consistently influential predictors of hospitalization.
Gain

Adapted iPsRS model using 13 individual-level SDoH predictors predicted 1-year all-cause hospitalization in a general adult cohort with AUROC up to 0.671, enabling equity-aware risk stratification for clinical care.

The rundown

Researchers reimplemented the individualized polysocial risk score framework using XGBoost and Logistic Regression, training on 13 individual-level SDoH predictors to predict all-cause hospitalization within 1 year. Fine-tuning was tested at 0%, 10%, 20%, 50%, and 70% with none, oversampling, and undersampling strategies, evaluated primarily by AUROC.

Interpretability was assessed via SHapley Additive exPlanations and causal structure learning, which identified age, race, and employment as proximal factors. Fairness was examined through false negative rate disparities across age, sex, and racial/ethnic subgroups to support equity-aware prediction.

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