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Developing well-calibrated illness severity scores for decision support in the critically ill.


ABSTRACT: Illness severity scores are regularly employed for quality improvement and benchmarking in the intensive care unit, but poor generalization performance, particularly with respect to probability calibration, has limited their use for decision support. These models tend to perform worse in patients at a high risk for mortality. We hypothesized that a sequential modeling approach wherein an initial regression model assigns risk and all patients deemed high risk then have their risk quantified by a second, high-risk-specific, regression model would result in a model with superior calibration across the risk spectrum. We compared this approach to a logistic regression model and a sophisticated machine learning approach, the gradient boosting machine. The sequential approach did not have an effect on the receiver operating characteristic curve or the precision-recall curve but resulted in improved reliability curves. The gradient boosting machine achieved a small improvement in discrimination performance and was similarly calibrated to the sequential models.

SUBMITTER: Cosgriff CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6695410 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Developing well-calibrated illness severity scores for decision support in the critically ill.

Cosgriff Christopher V CV   Celi Leo Anthony LA   Ko Stephanie S   Sundaresan Tejas T   Armengol de la Hoz Miguel Ángel MÁ   Kaufman Aaron Russell AR   Stone David J DJ   Badawi Omar O   Deliberato Rodrigo Octavio RO  

NPJ digital medicine 20190815


Illness severity scores are regularly employed for quality improvement and benchmarking in the intensive care unit, but poor generalization performance, particularly with respect to probability calibration, has limited their use for decision support. These models tend to perform worse in patients at a high risk for mortality. We hypothesized that a sequential modeling approach wherein an initial regression model assigns risk and all patients deemed <i>high risk</i> then have their risk quantifie  ...[more]

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