Comorbidities and medical history essential for mortality prediction in critically ill patients
José Castela Forte, Iwan C.C. van der Horst · The Lancet Digital Health · 2019
Critically ill patients are a highly heterogenous population who tend to have many comorbidities. Often, patients admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) with the same diagnosis and similar risk profiles according to available risk prediction scores have completely different clinical trajectories and outcomes. Even with increasingly large amounts of electronic health record data available, including clinical notes, vital sign measurements, laboratory data, and imaging data, the goal of unravelling complex disease mechanisms to better forecast patient outcomes remains largely unattained in critical care.