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Previously submitted to: Journal of Medical Internet Research (no longer under consideration since Jun 21, 2021)

Date Submitted: Jan 2, 2021

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Prediction of the risk of severe outcome in patients infected with COVID-19: Based on XGBoost method

  • Yong Li; 
  • Zhihang Peng; 
  • Zan Li; 
  • Xusheng An; 
  • Wei Wang; 
  • Qinyong Hu; 
  • Guoxin Hu; 
  • Yadong Yang; 
  • Xu Wang; 
  • Quanquan Guan; 
  • Xu Yang; 
  • Ziping Zhao; 
  • Xiangqing Kong; 
  • Yun Liu; 
  • Yankai Xia

ABSTRACT

Background:

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread worldwide and posed a great threat to human health.

Objective:

To establish a new prediction model for the prognosis of severe patients with COVID-19, so as to provide more comprehensive, accurate and timely indicators for early and dynamic monitoring of severe patients.

Methods:

Based on the patient's admission indicators, the severity of the initial classification of COVID-19, dynamic changes of admission indicators (the difference between indicators of two measurements) and other input variables, a prediction model was established to evaluate the risk of serious outcomes in COVID-19 patients after admission using the XGBoost method.

Results:

Prediction model included 372 subjects screened six predictors with higher scores. The high-risk range of the predictor variables was calculated as: blood oxygen saturation < 94%, peripheral blood leukocyte count > 5.77× 109, systolic blood pressure change > -28 mmHg, heart rate > 102.5 beats / min, multiple patchy shadows, age > 46.5 years old. Predictive sensitivity and accuracy of the model based on the training set and test set were 77.6%, 70.1% and 47.1%, 70.2%, respectively.

Conclusions:

Prediction model based on XGBoost method was more comprehensively and accurately to predict the risk of severe outcomes in patients with COVID-19, as well as reducing the rate of missed diagnosis in critically ill patients compared with the traditional prediction model.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Li Y, Peng Z, Li Z, An X, Wang W, Hu Q, Hu G, Yang Y, Wang X, Guan Q, Yang X, Zhao Z, Kong X, Liu Y, Xia Y

Prediction of the risk of severe outcome in patients infected with COVID-19: Based on XGBoost method

JMIR Preprints. 02/01/2021:26894

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.26894

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26894

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