Relationship Between Very Cold Outside Weather and Surgical Outcome: Integrating Shallow and Deep Artificial Neural Nets.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
Published Date: Aug 21, 2019

Abstract

Patients' hospital length of stay (LOS) as a surgical outcome is important indicator of quality of care. We used EMR data to build artificial neural network models to better understand the impact of cold weather on outcome of first surgeries in a day in comparison to a matched cohort receiving surgical treatment in warm days. We found that LOS for first-in-a-day cardiac and orthopedic surgical cases are longer in very cold days.

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  • Ahmad P Tafti
    School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
  • Yue Dong
    Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, United States.
  • Elizabeth Habermann
    Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
  • Hongfang Liu
    Department of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
  • Vitaly Herasevich
    Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

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