Development and validation of a deep-learning-based pediatric early warning system: A single-center study

Early detection and prompt intervention for clinically deteriorating events are needed to improve clinical outcomes. There have been several attempts at this, including the introduction of rapid response teams (RRTs) with early warning scores. We developed a deep-learning-based pediatric early warni...

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Veröffentlicht in:Biomedical Journal 2022-02, Vol.45 (1), p.155-168
Hauptverfasser: Park, Seong Jong, Cho, Kyung-Jae, Kwon, Oyeon, Park, Hyunho, Lee, Yeha, Shim, Woo Hyun, Park, Chae Ri, Jhang, Won Kyoung
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Zusammenfassung:Early detection and prompt intervention for clinically deteriorating events are needed to improve clinical outcomes. There have been several attempts at this, including the introduction of rapid response teams (RRTs) with early warning scores. We developed a deep-learning-based pediatric early warning system (pDEWS) and validated its performance. This single-center retrospective observational cohort study reviewed, 50,019 pediatric patients admitted to the general ward in a tertiary-care academic children's hospital from January 2012 to December 2018. They were split by admission date into a derivation and a validation cohort. We developed a pDEWS for the early prediction of cardiopulmonary arrest and unexpected ward-to-pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) transfer. Then, we validated this system by comparing modified pediatric early warning score (PEWS), random forest (RF); an ensemble model of multiple decision trees and logistic regression (LR); a statistical model that uses a logistic function. For predicting cardiopulmonary arrest, the pDEWS (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), 0.923) outperformed modified PEWS (AUROC, 0.769) and reduced the mean alarm count per day (MACPD) and number needed to examine (NNE) by 82.0% (from 46.7 to 8.4 MACPD) and 89.5% (from 0.303 to 0.807), respectively. Furthermore, for predicting unexpected ward-to-PICU transfer pDEWS also showed superior performance compared to existing methods. Our study showed that pDEWS was superior to the modified PEWS and prediction models using RF and LR. This study demonstrates that the integration of the pDEWS into RRTs could increase operational efficiency and improve clinical outcomes. [Display omitted]
ISSN:2319-4170
2320-2890
DOI:10.1016/j.bj.2021.01.003