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SeqBoost: a sequential explainable model for predicting ED revisits within 72 hours.

Pat Vatiwutipong1, Thanapon Noraset2

  • 1Faculty of ICT, Mahidol University, Phutthamonthon Sai 4, Nakhon Pathom, 73170, Thailand.

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
|June 4, 2026
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Predicting emergency department (ED) revisits is improved using temporal features and sequential modeling. New methods offer better explainability and accuracy for identifying at-risk patients.

Keywords:
Electronic health recordsEmergency department revisitMachine learningSequential boosting model

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  • Health Informatics
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Clinical Decision Support

Background:

  • Predicting 72-hour emergency department (ED) revisits is crucial for patient care and resource management.
  • Irregular and short patient histories pose significant challenges to existing predictive models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of temporal representations of historical ED utilization on predictive performance.
  • To evaluate sequential modeling approaches for improving ED revisit prediction and model explainability.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the MIMIC-IV-ED dataset to compare interval-based temporal features with visit-count summaries.
  • Developed Sequential Boosting (SeqBoost), a gradient-boosting model incorporating sequential, longitudinal visit data without padding.
  • Employed patient-level cross-validation and SHAP for feature attribution analysis.

Main Results:

  • Interval-based temporal features significantly outperformed visit-count summaries, especially for patients with limited history.
  • Longitudinal visit-level features improved predictive performance, achieving an AUROC of 0.691.
  • SeqBoost demonstrated competitive performance while generating stable, interpretable feature attributions by avoiding missing value artifacts.

Conclusions:

  • Temporal-interval statistics and longitudinal representations enhance 72-hour ED revisit prediction.
  • SeqBoost offers a robust and interpretable approach for identifying patients at high risk of ED return.
  • Findings support the development of more reliable clinical decision support systems for ED follow-up.