Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · May 2017
Understanding vasopressor intervention and weaning: risk prediction in a public heterogeneous clinical time series database.
The widespread adoption of electronic health records allows us to ask evidence-based questions about the need for and benefits of specific clinical interventions in critical-care settings across large populations. ⋯ Models that used SSAM features increased performance on both predictive tasks. These improvements may reflect an underlying, and ultimately predictive, latent state detectable from the physiological time series.