1. Developing a resiliency model for survival without major morbidity in preterm infants.
- Author
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Steurer MA, Ryckman KK, Baer RJ, Costello J, Oltman SP, McCulloch CE, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, and Rogers EE
- Subjects
- Infant, Pregnancy, Female, Infant, Newborn, Humans, Gestational Age, Morbidity, Infant, Premature, Infant, Newborn, Diseases
- Abstract
Objective: Develop and validate a resiliency score to predict survival and survival without neonatal morbidity in preterm neonates <32 weeks of gestation using machine learning., Study Design: Models using maternal, perinatal, and neonatal variables were developed using LASSO method in a population based Californian administrative dataset. Outcomes were survival and survival without severe neonatal morbidity. Discrimination was assessed in the derivation and an external dataset from a tertiary care center., Results: Discrimination in the internal validation dataset was excellent with a c-statistic of 0.895 (95% CI 0.882-0.908) for survival and 0.867 (95% CI 0.857-0.877) for survival without severe neonatal morbidity, respectively. Discrimination remained high in the external validation dataset (c-statistic 0.817, CI 0.741-0.893 and 0.804, CI 0.770-0.837, respectively)., Conclusion: Our successfully predicts survival and survival without major morbidity in preterm babies born at <32 weeks. This score can be used to adjust for multiple variables across administrative datasets., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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- 2023
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