inDemand Stories | ACRA for Intensive Care Units
ACRA: An effective algorithm that identifies patients susceptible to get complications that cause readmissions in Intensive Care Units
ACRA is one of the healthcare challenges launched by Servicio Murciano de Salud in the Region of Murcia (Spain) as part of the inDemand project. After a successful co-creation process between healthcare professionals from SMS and the company BigML, with the financial support of INFO Murcia and the business support from Ticbiomed, these are the main results:
The need
Unscheduled re-entry of the patient in the ICU is an adverse event that causes an increase in morbidity, mortality and consumption of hospital resources. A recent meta-analysis has reported an average re-entry rate between 4 and 7%, although it can reach up to 14%. The average mortality of patients with unintended readmission in the 72 hours after discharge from the ICU is 33%.
The solution
The solution consists of a supervised learning model where each patient with unintended readmission in the 72 hours after discharge from the ICU are predicted as TRUE or FALSE. Additionally, reports with field importance are included (e.g. related complications, oxygen saturation level, text from the discharge summary, among others). The aim is to identify which factors have more influence in readmission helping ICU professionals to better understand what triggers readmission and enabling early detection of risk factors.
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