Development of A risk Prediction Nomogram for Disposition of Acute Toxic Exposure Patients to Intensive Care Unit

Author(s):  
Fatma M. Elgazzar ◽  
Ahmed M. Afifi ◽  
Mohamed Abd Elhady Shama ◽  
Ghada N. El‐Sarnagawy
10.2196/23128 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. e23128
Author(s):  
Pan Pan ◽  
Yichao Li ◽  
Yongjiu Xiao ◽  
Bingchao Han ◽  
Longxiang Su ◽  
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Background Patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU) have a high mortality rate, and methods to assess patients’ prognosis early and administer precise treatment are of great significance. Objective The aim of this study was to use machine learning to construct a model for the analysis of risk factors and prediction of mortality among ICU patients with COVID-19. Methods In this study, 123 patients with COVID-19 in the ICU of Vulcan Hill Hospital were retrospectively selected from the database, and the data were randomly divided into a training data set (n=98) and test data set (n=25) with a 4:1 ratio. Significance tests, correlation analysis, and factor analysis were used to screen 100 potential risk factors individually. Conventional logistic regression methods and four machine learning algorithms were used to construct the risk prediction model for the prognosis of patients with COVID-19 in the ICU. The performance of these machine learning models was measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Interpretation and evaluation of the risk prediction model were performed using calibration curves, SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), etc, to ensure its stability and reliability. The outcome was based on the ICU deaths recorded from the database. Results Layer-by-layer screening of 100 potential risk factors finally revealed 8 important risk factors that were included in the risk prediction model: lymphocyte percentage, prothrombin time, lactate dehydrogenase, total bilirubin, eosinophil percentage, creatinine, neutrophil percentage, and albumin level. Finally, an eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model established with the 8 important risk factors showed the best recognition ability in the training set of 5-fold cross validation (AUC=0.86) and the verification queue (AUC=0.92). The calibration curve showed that the risk predicted by the model was in good agreement with the actual risk. In addition, using the SHAP and LIME algorithms, feature interpretation and sample prediction interpretation algorithms of the XGBoost black box model were implemented. Additionally, the model was translated into a web-based risk calculator that is freely available for public usage. Conclusions The 8-factor XGBoost model predicts risk of death in ICU patients with COVID-19 well; it initially demonstrates stability and can be used effectively to predict COVID-19 prognosis in ICU patients.


Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi T May ◽  
Joseph B Muhlestein ◽  
Benjamin D Horne ◽  
Kirk U Knowlton ◽  
Tami L Bair ◽  
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Background: Treatment for COVID-19 has created surges in hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and the need for advanced medical therapy and equipment, including ventilators. Identifying patients early on who are at risk for more intensive hospital resource use and poor outcomes could result in shorter hospital stays, lower costs, and improved outcomes. Therefore, we created clinical risk scores (CORONA-ICU and -ICU+) to predict ICU admission among patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Methods: Intermountain Healthcare patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were hospitalized between March 4, 2020 and June 8, 2020 were studied. Derivation of CORONA-ICU risk score models used weightings of commonly collected risk factors and medicines. The primary outcome was admission to the ICU during hospitalization, and secondary outcomes included death and ventilator use. Results: A total of 451 patients were hospitalized for a SARS-CoV-2 positive infection, and 191 (42.4%) required admission to the ICU. Patients admitted to the ICU were older (58.2 vs. 53.6 years), more often male (61.3% vs. 48.5%), and had higher rates of hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and peripheral arterial disease. ICU patients more often took ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, and statins. Table 1 shows variables that were evaluated and included in the CORONA-ICU risk prediction models. Models adding medications (CORONA-ICU+) improved risk-prediction. Though not created to predict death and ventilator use, these models did so with high accuracy (Table 2). Conclusion: The CORONA-ICU and -ICU+ models, composed of commonly collected risk factors without or with medications, were shown to be highly predictive of ICU admissions, death, and ventilator use. These models can be efficiently derived and effectively identify high-risk patients who require more careful observation and increased use of advanced medical therapies.


Author(s):  
Zhenkun Shi ◽  
Weitong Chen ◽  
Shining Liang ◽  
Wanli Zuo ◽  
Lin Yue ◽  
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