Clinically explainable machine learning models for early identification of patients at risk of hospital-acquired urinary tract infection.

Journal: The Journal of hospital infection
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML) models for early identification of patients at risk of hospital-acquired urinary tract infection (HA-UTI) may enable timely and targeted preventive and therapeutic strategies. However, clinicians are often challenged in the interpretation of the predictive outcomes provided by the ML models, which often reach different performances.

Authors

  • R S Jakobsen
    Centre for Clinical Research, North Denmark Regional Hospital, Hjørring, Denmark; Business Intelligence and Analysis, The North Denmark Region, Denmark. Electronic address: r.sejer@rn.dk.
  • T D Nielsen
    Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • P Leutscher
    Centre for Clinical Research, North Denmark Regional Hospital, Hjørring, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • K Koch
    Centre for Clinical Research, North Denmark Regional Hospital, Hjørring, Denmark; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.