• Crit Care · Aug 2021

    Machine learning identifies ICU outcome predictors in a multicenter COVID-19 cohort.

    • Harry Magunia, Simone Lederer, Raphael Verbuecheln, Bryant Joseph Gilot, Michael Koeppen, Helene A Haeberle, Valbona Mirakaj, Pascal Hofmann, Gernot Marx, Johannes Bickenbach, Boris Nohe, Michael Lay, Claudia Spies, Andreas Edel, Fridtjof Schiefenhövel, Tim Rahmel, Christian Putensen, Timur Sellmann, Thea Koch, Timo Brandenburger, Detlef Kindgen-Milles, Thorsten Brenner, Marc Berger, Kai Zacharowski, Elisabeth Adam, Matthias Posch, Onnen Moerer, Christian S Scheer, Daniel Sedding, Markus A Weigand, Falk Fichtner, Carla Nau, Florian Prätsch, Thomas Wiesmann, Christian Koch, Gerhard Schneider, Tobias Lahmer, Andreas Straub, Andreas Meiser, Manfred Weiss, Bettina Jungwirth, Frank Wappler, Patrick Meybohm, Johannes Herrmann, Nisar Malek, Oliver Kohlbacher, Stephanie Biergans, and Peter Rosenberger.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Hoppe Seyler Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. harry.magunia@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
    • Crit Care. 2021 Aug 17; 25 (1): 295295.

    BackgroundIntensive Care Resources are heavily utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, risk stratification and prediction of SARS-CoV-2 patient clinical outcomes upon ICU admission remain inadequate. This study aimed to develop a machine learning model, based on retrospective & prospective clinical data, to stratify patient risk and predict ICU survival and outcomes.MethodsA Germany-wide electronic registry was established to pseudonymously collect admission, therapeutic and discharge information of SARS-CoV-2 ICU patients retrospectively and prospectively. Machine learning approaches were evaluated for the accuracy and interpretability of predictions. The Explainable Boosting Machine approach was selected as the most suitable method. Individual, non-linear shape functions for predictive parameters and parameter interactions are reported.Results1039 patients were included in the Explainable Boosting Machine model, 596 patients retrospectively collected, and 443 patients prospectively collected. The model for prediction of general ICU outcome was shown to be more reliable to predict "survival". Age, inflammatory and thrombotic activity, and severity of ARDS at ICU admission were shown to be predictive of ICU survival. Patients' age, pulmonary dysfunction and transfer from an external institution were predictors for ECMO therapy. The interaction of patient age with D-dimer levels on admission and creatinine levels with SOFA score without GCS were predictors for renal replacement therapy.ConclusionsUsing Explainable Boosting Machine analysis, we confirmed and weighed previously reported and identified novel predictors for outcome in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Using this strategy, predictive modeling of COVID-19 ICU patient outcomes can be performed overcoming the limitations of linear regression models. Trial registration "ClinicalTrials" (clinicaltrials.gov) under NCT04455451.© 2021. The Author(s).

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