Predicting Surgical Site Infections (SSI) using Electronic Medical Records
Rebecca Barter, Prabhu Shankar, Parul Dayal,
Karl Kumbier, Hien Nguyen, Bin Yu
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NHSN surveillance data
EHR data
Current approaches
Surgery
Patient
SSI
Vitals
Labs
Medications
... Our idea
SSI is a rare event
Aggregated RF model
Predicting SSI
(top 15)
(top 15)
(top 15)
Most important features:
- temperature
- pulse
- length of surgery
Performance on test set
AUC 0.79
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Lightening talk - CZI
By Rebecca Barter
