Machine learning for real-time aggregated prediction of hospital admission for emergency patients

Abstract Machine learning for hospital operations is under-studied. We present a prediction pipeline that uses live electronic health-records for patients in a UK teaching hospital’s emergency department (ED) to generate short-term, probabilistic forecasts of emergency admissions. A set of XGBoost c...

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Main Authors: Zella King, Joseph Farrington, Martin Utley, Enoch Kung, Samer Elkhodair, Steve Harris, Richard Sekula, Jonathan Gillham, Kezhi Li, Sonya Crowe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:npj Digital Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00649-y