Patient Event Sequences for Predicting Hospitalization Length of Stay

Emil Riis Hansen, Thomas Dyhre Nielsen, Thomas Mulvad Larsen, Mads Nibe Strausholm, Tomer Sagi, Katja Hose

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Abstract

Predicting patients' hospital length of stay (LOS) is essential for improving resource allocation and supporting decision-making in healthcare organizations. This paper proposes a novel transformer-based model, termed Medic-BERT (M-BERT), for predicting LOS by modeling patient information as sequences of events. We performed empirical experiments on a cohort of $48k$ emergency care patients from a large Danish hospital. Experimental results show that M-BERT can achieve high accuracy on a variety of LOS problems and outperforms traditional non-sequence-based machine learning approaches.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence in Medicine - 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2023, Proceedings
EditorsJose M. Juarez, Mar Marcos, Gregor Stiglic, Allan Tucker
Number of pages6
Volume13897
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Publication date7 Jun 2023
Pages51-56
ISBN (Print)9783031343438
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2023
EventInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Bernardin Congress Centre, Portoroz, Slovenia
Duration: 12 Jun 202315 Jun 2023
https://aime23.aimedicine.info/

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
LocationBernardin Congress Centre
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortoroz
Period12/06/202315/06/2023
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Keywords

  • length of stay prediction
  • sequence models
  • transformers

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