Improving ED Emergency Severity Index Acuity Assignment Using Machine Learning and Clinical Natural Language Processing.

Journal: Journal of emergency nursing
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Triage is critical to mitigating the effect of increased volume by determining patient acuity, need for resources, and establishing acuity-based patient prioritization. The purpose of this retrospective study was to determine whether historical EHR data can be used with clinical natural language processing and machine learning algorithms (KATE) to produce accurate ESI predictive models.

Authors

  • Oleksandr Ivanov
  • Lisa Wolf
  • Deena Brecher
  • Erica Lewis
  • Kevin Masek
  • Kyla Montgomery
  • Yurii Andrieiev
  • Moss McLaughlin
  • Stephen Liu
    VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.
  • Robert Dunne
  • Kevin Klauer
  • Christian Reilly