Author:
Chang Yu-Hsin,Shih Hong-Mo,Wu Jia-En,Huang Fen-Wei,Chen Wei-Kung,Chen Dar-Min,Chung Yu-Ting,Wang Charles C. N.
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) is a critical problem worldwide, and streaming can alleviate crowding to improve patient flows. Among triage scales, patients labeled as “triage level 3” or “urgent” generally comprise the majority, but there is no uniform criterion for classifying low-severity patients in this diverse population. Our aim is to establish a machine learning model for prediction of low-severity patients with short discharge length of stay (DLOS) in ED.
Methods
This was a retrospective study in the ED of China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) and Asia University Hospital (AUH) in Taiwan. Adult patients (aged over 20 years) with Taiwan Triage Acuity Scale level 3 were enrolled between 2018 and 2019. We used available information during triage to establish a machine learning model that can predict low-severity patients with short DLOS. To achieve this goal, we trained five models—CatBoost, XGBoost, decision tree, random forest, and logistic regression—by using large ED visit data and examined their performance in internal and external validation.
Results
For internal validation in CMUH, 33,986 patients (75.9%) had a short DLOS (shorter than 4 h), and for external validation in AUH, there were 13,269 (82.7%) patients with short DLOS. The best prediction model was CatBoost in internal validation, and area under the receiver operating cha racteristic curve (AUC) was 0.755 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.743–0.767). Under the same threshold, XGBoost yielded the best performance, with an AUC value of 0.761 (95% CI: 0.742- 0.765) in external validation.
Conclusions
This is the first study to establish a machine learning model by applying triage information alone for prediction of short DLOS in ED with both internal and external validation. In future work, the models could be developed as an assisting tool in real-time triage to identify low-severity patients as fast track candidates.
Funder
China Medical University Hospital
Asia University
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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