Erschienen in:
15.02.2020 | IM - COMMENTARY
Prediction of general medical admission length of stay with natural language processing and deep learning: a pilot study
verfasst von:
Greta Falavigna
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 6/2020
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Excerpt
The article by [
1] focuses on a very interesting topic for EDs, i.e., predicting the length of stay of patients. The relevance of this topic is widely recognized in the literature, since it is linked to a twofold problem: on one hand, physicians clearly care about people’s health; on the other hand, they have to take budget constraints into account [
2,
3]. Starting from these considerations, models for assessing the pressure of the medical care system are very welcome. …