Predicting Agitation Events in the Emergency Department Through Artificial Intelligence.

Journal: JAMA network open
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Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Agitation events are increasing in emergency departments (EDs), exacerbating safety risks for patients and clinicians. A wide range of clinical etiologies and behavioral patterns in the emergency setting make agitation prediction difficult in this setting.

Authors

  • Ambrose H Wong
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Atharva V Sapre
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Kaicheng Wang
    Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Bidisha Nath
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Dhruvil Shah
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Anusha Kumar
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Isaac V Faustino
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Riddhi Desai
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Yue Hu
    Department of Biobank, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
  • Leah Robinson
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Can Meng
    Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Guangyu Tong
    Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Steven L Bernstein
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
  • Kimberly A Yonkers
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worchester.
  • Edward R Melnick
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • James D Dziura
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • R Andrew Taylor
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.