Prediction of postoperative infections by strategic data imputation and explainable machine learning.
Infections following healthcare-associated interventions drive patient morbidity and mortality, making early detection essential. Traditional predictive models utilize preoperative surgical characteristics. This study evaluated whether integrating postoperative laboratory values and their kinetics could improve outcome prediction.
Author(s): Guillen-Ramirez, Hugo, Sanchez-Taltavull, Daniel, Perrodin, Stéphanie, Peisl, Sarah, Triep, Karen, Gaudet-Blavignac, Christophe, Endrich, Olga, Beldi, Guido
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaf145