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Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Missing data in electronic health records (EHRs) is common and often nonrandom.
  • Missingness patterns can contain valuable patient health information.
  • The effectiveness of incorporating missingness features into clinical prediction models requires comprehensive evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of including informative missingness features in machine learning models.
  • To evaluate the robustness of these features across different patient subgroups and clinical tasks.
  • To determine the utility of missingness features for predicting clinically relevant outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 48,336 EHRs from PhysioNet Challenges (2012, 2019).
  • Focused on predicting mortality, length of stay, and sepsis outcomes.
  • Employed gated recurrent units (GRUs) for sequential data analysis and prediction.
  • Validated models on multicenter data, assessing performance across subgroups.

Main Results:

  • Including missingness features generally enhanced retrospective model performance (AUROC improvement: 1.2%–7.7%).
  • Performance gains varied by outcome and patient subgroup.
  • Missingness features showed limited utility in a simulated prospective setting, underperforming models without them.
  • Prospective use led to earlier disease detection but also increased false positives.

Conclusions:

  • Missingness features can improve machine learning model performance for certain clinical predictions, particularly administrative tasks like length of stay.
  • Understanding the impact of missingness features is crucial for their informed application in clinical settings.
  • Further research is needed to explore the use of missingness features in prospective models requiring frequent predictions.