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A Clinical Decision Web to Predict ICU Admission or Death for Patients Hospitalised with COVID-19 Using Machine Learning Algorithms

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18168677

Keywords

COVID-19; ICU; mortality; machine learning; predictive model; clinical decision web tool

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  1. Health Research Institute of Aragon (IIS Aragon)
  2. ITAINNOVA-Instituto Tecnologico de Aragon

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This study developed a predictive model using data from 3623 COVID-19 patients to estimate the risk of ICU admission or mortality and aid clinicians in decision-making. Various techniques and machine learning algorithms were explored, with XGBoost algorithm performing the best. The model was externally validated, achieving good discrimination and calibration, with a user-friendly web application also created to assist in rapid decision-making in clinical practice.
The purpose of the study was to build a predictive model for estimating the risk of ICU admission or mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and provide a user-friendly tool to assist clinicians in the decision-making process. The study cohort comprised 3623 patients with confirmed COVID-19 who were hospitalized in the SALUD hospital network of Aragon (Spain), which includes 23 hospitals, between February 2020 and January 2021, a period that includes several pandemic waves. Up to 165 variables were analysed, including demographics, comorbidity, chronic drugs, vital signs, and laboratory data. To build the predictive models, different techniques and machine learning (ML) algorithms were explored: multilayer perceptron, random forest, and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). A reduction dimensionality procedure was used to minimize the features to 20, ensuring feasible use of the tool in practice. Our model was validated both internally and externally. We also assessed its calibration and provide an analysis of the optimal cut-off points depending on the metric to be optimized. The best performing algorithm was XGBoost. The final model achieved good discrimination for the external validation set (AUC = 0.821, 95% CI 0.787-0.854) and accurate calibration (slope = 1, intercept = -0.12). A cut-off of 0.4 provides a sensitivity and specificity of 0.71 and 0.78, respectively. In conclusion, we built a risk prediction model from a large amount of data from several pandemic waves, which had good calibration and discrimination ability. We also created a user-friendly web application that can aid rapid decision-making in clinical practice.

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