Journal
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 921-928Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4316-y
Keywords
machine learning; hospital outcomes; predictive models; data mining
Funding
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [UL1TR000114]
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Predicting death in a cohort of clinically diverse, multicondition hospitalized patients is difficult. Prognostic models that use electronic medical record (EMR) data to determine 1-year death risk can improve end-of-life planning and risk adjustment for research. Determine if the final set of demographic, vital sign, and laboratory data from a hospitalization can be used to accurately quantify 1-year mortality risk. A retrospective study using electronic medical record data linked with the state death registry. A total of 59,848 hospitalized patients within a six-hospital network over a 4-year period. The last set of vital signs, complete blood count, basic and complete metabolic panel, demographic information, and ICD codes. The outcome of interest was death within 1 year. Model performance was measured on the validation data set. Random forests (RF) outperformed logisitic regression (LR) models in discriminative ability. An RF model that used the final set of demographic, vitals, and laboratory data from the final 48 h of hospitalization had an AUC of 0.86 (0.85-0.87) for predicting death within a year. Age, blood urea nitrogen, platelet count, hemoglobin, and creatinine were the most important variables in the RF model. Models that used comorbidity variables alone had the lowest AUC. In groups of patients with a high probability of death, RF models underestimated the probability by less than 10%. The last set of EMR data from a hospitalization can be used to accurately estimate the risk of 1-year mortality within a cohort of multicondition hospitalized patients.
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