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Relationship Between Very Cold Outside Weather and Surgical Outcome: Integrating Shallow and Deep Artificial Neural Nets
Ahmad P. Tafti, Yue Dong, Elizabeth Habermann, Hongfang Liu, Vitaly Herasevich
1783 - 1784
10.3233/SHTI190646
Research Article
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 264: MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All
Abstract

Patients’ hospital length of stay (LOS) as a surgical outcome is important indicator of quality of care. We used EMR data to build artificial neural network models to better understand the impact of cold weather on outcome of first surgeries in a day in comparison to a matched cohort receiving surgical treatment in warm days. We found that LOS for first-in-a-day cardiac and orthopedic surgical cases are longer in very cold days.

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