Title
Development And Validation Of A Machine Learning Model Predicting Illness Trajectory And Hospital Utilization Of Covid-19 Patients: A Nationwide Study
Abstract
Objective: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to severe strain on hospital capacity in many countries. We aim to develop a model helping planners assess expected COVID-19 hospital resource utilization based on individual patient characteristics.Materials and Methods: We develop a model of patient clinical course based on an advanced multistate survival model. The model predicts the patient's disease course in terms of clinical states-critical, severe, or moderate. The model also predicts hospital utilization on the level of entire hospitals or healthcare systems. We cross-validated the model using a nationwide registry following the day-by-day clinical status of all hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel from March 1 to May 2, 2020 (n = 2703).Results: Per-day mean absolute errors for predicted total and critical care hospital bed utilization were 4.72 +/- 1.07 and 1.68 +/- 0.40, respectively, over cohorts of 330 hospitalized patients; areas under the curve for prediction of critical illness and in-hospital mortality were 0.88 +/- 0.04 and 0.96 +/- 0.04, respectively. We further present the impact of patient influx scenarios on day-by-day healthcare system utilization. We provide an accompanying R software package.Discussion: The proposed model accurately predicts total and critical care hospital utilization. The model enables evaluating impacts of patient influx scenarios on utilization, accounting for the state of currently hospitalized patients and characteristics of incoming patients. We show that accurate hospital load predictions were possible using only a patient's age, sex, and day-by-day clinical state (critical, severe, or moderate).Conclusions: The multistate model we develop is a powerful tool for predicting individual-level patient outcomes and hospital-level utilization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/jamia/ocab005
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19, hospital utilization, survival analysis, healthcare facilities, multistate model
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1067-5027
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Roimi100.34
Rom Gutman200.34
Jonathan Somer300.34
Asaf Ben Arie400.34
Ido Calman500.34
Yaron Bar-Lavie600.34
Udi Gelbshtein700.34
Sigal Liverant-Taub800.34
Arnona Ziv900.34
Danny Eytan1012.85
Malka Gorfine11303.38
Uri Shalit12115.26