Machine learning models predicting undertriage in telephone triage.

Journal: Annals of medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Undertriaged patients have worse outcomes than appropriately triaged patients. Machine learning provides better triage prediction than conventional triage in emergency departments, but no machine learning-based undertriage prediction models have yet been developed for prehospital telephone triage. We developed and validated machine learning models for telephone triage.

Authors

  • Ryota Inokuchi
    Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, JR General Hospital, 2-1-3 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8528, Japan.
  • Masao Iwagami
    Department of Health Services Research, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • Yu Sun
    Department of Neurology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • Ayaka Sakamoto
    Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • Nanako Tamiya
    Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.