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Developing machine learning models to personalize care levels among emergency room patients for hospital admission.

Minh NguyenConor K CorbinTiffany EulalioNicolai P OstbergGautam MachirajuBen J MarafinoMichael BaiocchiChristian C RoseJonathan H Chen
Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2021)
Undertriaging admitted ED patients who subsequently require ICU care is common and associated with poorer outcomes. Machine learning models using readily available electronic health record data predict subsequent need for ICU admission with good discrimination, substantially better than the benchmarking ESI system. The results could be used in a multitiered clinical decision-support system to improve ED triage.
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