Predicting Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Patients Using Machine Learning
摘要
This study aimed to predict the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Length of Stay for individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) using the XGBoost model. Electronic Health Record (EHR) data from The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) - IV (version 2.2) dataset was used in the study. Variables included patients’ demographic information, first measurements of basic physical and laboratory tests after ICU admission, and some important comorbidities. After data preprocessing, 652 IBD patients and their first ICU records were selected. With ten-fold cross-validation, the XGBoost model demonstrated strong performances with area under the curve (AUC) (0.787), accuracy (0.768), and sensitivity (0.943). The most significant variables include age, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), red blood cell distribution width (RDW), acute respiratory failure, among others. Our study could serve as a predictive model for the ICU Length of Stay and offer guidance and references for medical organizations in resource allocation, staff assignments, and bed preparation. This, in turn, can improve efficiency and reduce patient mortality rates.