Predicting hospital admissions, ICU utilization, and prolonged length of stay among febrile pediatric emergency department patients using incomplete and imbalanced electronic health record (EHR) data strategies.
Journal:
International journal of medical informatics
Published Date:
Apr 4, 2025
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Determine the efficacy of commonly used approaches to handling missing and/or imbalanced Electronic Health Record (EHR) data on the performance of predictive models targeting risk of admission, intensive care unit (ICU) use, or prolonged length of stay (PLOS) among presenting febrile pediatric emergency department (ED) patients.