Time Series Analysis of Nursing Notes for Mortality Prediction via a State Transition Topic Model
Yohan Jo, Natasha A. Loghmanpour, Carolyn Penstein Rosé · 2015
Accurate mortality prediction is an important task in intensive care units in order to channel prompt care to patients in the most critical condition and to reduce nurses' alarm fatigue. Nursing notes carry valuable information in this regard, but nothing has been reported about the effectiveness of temporal analysis of nursing notes in mortality prediction tasks.