Early outcome detection for COVID-19 patients

Abstract With the outbreak of COVID-19 exerting a strong pressure on hospitals and health facilities, clinical decision support systems based on predictive models can help to effectively improve the management of the pandemic. We present a method for predicting mortality for COVID-19 patients. Start...

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Autores principales: Alina Sîrbu, Greta Barbieri, Francesco Faita, Paolo Ferragina, Luna Gargani, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Corrado Priami
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/34716b8d4543467a9ae9c449c07676a4
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Sumario:Abstract With the outbreak of COVID-19 exerting a strong pressure on hospitals and health facilities, clinical decision support systems based on predictive models can help to effectively improve the management of the pandemic. We present a method for predicting mortality for COVID-19 patients. Starting from a large number of clinical variables, we select six of them with largest predictive power, using a feature selection method based on genetic algorithms and starting from a set of COVID-19 patients from the first wave. The algorithm is designed to reduce the impact of missing values in the set of variables measured, and consider only variables that show good accuracy on validation data. The final predictive model provides accuracy larger than 85% on test data, including a new patient cohort from the second COVID-19 wave, and on patients with imputed missing values. The selected clinical variables are confirmed to be relevant by recent literature on COVID-19.