Predicting in-hospital length of stay: a two-stage modeling approach to account for highly skewed data

Z Xu, C Zhao, CD Scales Jr, R Henao… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2022 - Springer
Background In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic our institution was interested in
forecasting how long surgical patients receiving elective procedures would spend in the …

[HTML][HTML] A machine learning algorithm predicts duration of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients

J Ebinger, M Wells, D Ouyang, T Davis… - Intelligence-based …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on the healthcare system,
particularly hospital bed capacity in the setting of large variations in patient length of stay …

Time-to-event modeling for hospital length of stay prediction for COVID-19 patients

Y Wen, MF Rahman, Y Zhuang, M Pokojovy… - Machine learning with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Providing timely patient care while maintaining optimal resource utilization is one of the
central operational challenges hospitals have been facing throughout the pandemic …

Quantifying the impact of addressing data challenges in prediction of length of stay

A Naemi, T Schmidt, M Mansourvar, A Ebrahimi… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2021 - Springer
Background Prediction of length of stay (LOS) at admission time can provide physicians and
nurses insight into the illness severity of patients and aid them in avoiding adverse events …

A machine learning study to improve surgical case duration prediction

CC Huang, J Lai, DY Cho, J Yu - 2020 - researchsquare.com
Since the emergence of COVID-19, many hospitals have encountered challenges in
performing efficient scheduling and good resource management to ensure the quality of …

Prediction of length of stay in the emergency department for COVID-19 patients: A machine learning approach

EE Etu, L Monplaisir, S Arslanturk, S Masoud… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has become a global public health threat.
The influx of COVID-19 patients has prolonged the length of stay (LOS) in the emergency …

Assessing the impact of emergency department short stay units using length-of-stay prediction and discrete event simulation

M Cevik, C Kavaklioglu, F Razak, A Verma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Accurately predicting hospital length-of-stay at the time a patient is admitted to hospital may
help guide clinical decision making and resource allocation. In this study we aim to build a …

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of machine learning algorithms for predicting perioperative mortality

DI Andonov, B Ulm, M Graessner… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2023 - Springer
Background Machine-learning models are susceptible to external influences which can
result in performance deterioration. The aim of our study was to elucidate the impact of a …

Length of stay prediction with standardized hospital data from acute and emergency care using a deep neural network

V Lequertier, T Wang, J Fondrevelle, V Augusto… - Medical …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Length of stay (LOS) is an important metric for the organization and scheduling of
care activities. This study sought to propose a LOS prediction method based on deep …

Predictors of in-hospital length of stay among cardiac patients: a machine learning approach

TA Daghistani, R Elshawi, S Sakr, AM Ahmed… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective The In-hospital length of stay (LOS) is expected to increase as
cardiovascular diseases complexity increases and the population ages. This will affect …