Machine Learning for Risk Prediction of Recurrent AKI in Adult Patients After Hospital Discharge.

ABSTRACT

Recurrent AKI has been found common among hospitalized patients after discharge, and early prediction may allow timely intervention and optimized post-discharge treatment [1]. There are significant gaps in the literature regarding the risk prediction on the post-AKI population, and most current works only included a limited number of pre-selected variables [2]. In this study, we built and compared machine learning models using both knowledge-based and data-driven features in predicting the risk of recurrent AKI within 1-year of discharge. Our results showed that the additional use of data-driven features statistically improved the model performances, with best AUC=0.766 by using logistic regression.