Influential factors for failure to show up for a postpartum visit

摘要

The postpartum period can be a very challenging time for women, with a lot of factors that might influence their ability to attend a postpartum or postnatal visit. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirms that not showing up for a postpartum visit can result in physical, psychological, and social complications. This study aims to pinpoint the influential factors contributing to women's failure to show up for their postpartum visit. This, in turn, can focus specific interventions to assist the identified cohort in showing up for their follow-up visit. The postpartum visit will help in identifying complications, such as depression, and optimize the health and wellness of both mother and infant. Logistic regression, Hoeffding tree, bagging, AdaBoost, and random subspace methods ensembles with a voting methodology for the final prediction are proposed to identify/predict the influential factors. Sensitivity analysis is performed to compare simple logistic regression, Hoeffding tree, bagging, AdaBoost, and random subspace methods ensembles with the proposed voting model.