Building an automated, machine learning-enabled platform for predicting post-operative complications.

Journal: Physiological measurement
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Abstract

. In 2019, the University of Florida College of Medicine launched thealgorithm to predict eight major post-operative complications using automatically extracted data from the electronic health record.. This project was developed in parallel with our Intelligent Critical Care Center and represents a culmination of efforts to build an efficient and accurate model for data processing and predictive analytics.. This paper discusses how our model was constructed and improved upon. We highlight the consolidation of the database, processing of fixed and time-series physiologic measurements, development and training of predictive models, and expansion of those models into different aspects of patient assessment and treatment. We end by discussing future directions of the model.

Authors

  • Jeremy A Balch
    Department of Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, United States.
  • Matthew M Ruppert
    Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Precision and Intelligent Systems in Medicine (Prisma(P)), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
  • Benjamin Shickel
    Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA.
  • Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti
    Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA.
  • Patrick J Tighe
    Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
  • Philip A Efron
    Department of Surgery, Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, Florida.
  • Gilbert R Upchurch
    TCV Division, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.
  • Parisa Rashidi
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA.
  • Azra Bihorac
    Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA.
  • Tyler J Loftus
    Department of Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL. Electronic address: tyler.loftus@surgery.ufl.edu.