Development and Validation of a Machine Learning COVID-19 Veteran (COVet) Deterioration Risk Score.

Journal: Critical care explorations
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To develop the COVid Veteran (COVet) score for clinical deterioration in Veterans hospitalized with COVID-19 and further validate this model in both Veteran and non-Veteran samples. No such score has been derived and validated while incorporating a Veteran sample.

Authors

  • Sushant Govindan
    MInDSET Service Line, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
  • Alexandra Spicer
    Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  • Matthew Bearce
    MInDSET Service Line, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
  • Richard S Schaefer
    MInDSET Service Line, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
  • Andrea Uhl
    MInDSET Service Line, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
  • Gil Alterovitz
    Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Children׳s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, USA. Electronic address: gil_alterovitz@hms.harvard.edu.
  • Michael J Kim
    Veterans' Affairs National Artificial Intelligence Institute, Washington, DC.
  • Kyle A Carey
    Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, United States.
  • Nirav S Shah
    Department of Medicine, Northshore Hospital, Chicago, IL.
  • Christopher Winslow
  • Emily Gilbert
    Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL.
  • Anne Stey
    Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, 76 North St. Clair Street, Suite 650, Chicago, IL, United States.
  • Alan M Weiss
    Section of Critical Care, Baycare Health System, Clearwater, FL.
  • Devendra Amin
    Section of Critical Care, Baycare Health System, Clearwater, FL.
  • George Karway
    Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  • Jennie Martin
    Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53792, United States.
  • Dana P Edelson
  • Matthew M Churpek
    Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.