The intervention exists outside the algorithm. It depends on the clinician who receives the alert, the nurse who has time to call the patient after discharge, the social worker who can arrange ...

Originally published in Synapse on September 13, 1990.

Algorithms can forecast which patients are likely to return to the hospital. Whether anyone has the resources to intervene is... [Originally published in Synapse on September 13, 1990.] After 10 years ...

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