2135 - Know Your Algorithm: How to Identify Medically Vulnerable Sub-Populations of Children Using Claims Data

Sunday, April 24, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 108

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 2135

Leader(s)

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Carolyn Foster, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Co-Leader(s)

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Carolyn Foster, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alyna Chien, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, General Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Tamara Simon, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar)
Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Burbank, California, United States
Karen Kuhlthau, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Dartmouth Health, United States
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, HCEC-C

Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Carolyn C. Foster, MD, MSHS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Alyna T. Chien, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Tamara D. Simon, MD, MSPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Karen Kuhlthau, PhD: Johnson and Johnson (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Chris Feudtner, MD PhD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Three open-source claims-based pediatric algorithms have been developed, validated, and implemented to identify medically vulnerable children using hospital and payer claims data: the Children with Disabilities Algorithm (CWDA), Complex Chronic Condition Algorithm (CCCA), the Pediatric Medical Complexity Algorithm (PMCA). The workshop will open with participants’ interests and a historical perspective (Dr. Kuhlthau) about the algorithms role in improving child health. Current algorithm authors (Drs. Alyna Chien, Chris Feudtner, Tamara Simon) will then present and contrast the algorithms’ features followed by Q&A. The second half of the workshop will be devoted to working through use cases prepared by research faculty (Drs. JoAnna Leyenaar, Carolyn Foster). Participants: please email pedalgorithms@gmail.com to pre-register for this course so we can send you a poll, course materials, and workshop timing; however, drop-ins are also welcome.