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Table 3 Number and proportion of papers according to outcome predicted and approach to validation (for prediction studies only)

From: Use of machine learning to analyse routinely collected intensive care unit data: a systematic review

 

Approach to validationb

Outcome predicted

Total papersa

Validated

Independent data

Leave-P-out

k-fold cross-validation

Randomly selected subset

Otherb

Complications

79 (46.7%)

73 (92.4%)

5 (6.85%)

5 (6.85%)

33 (45.2%)

30 (41.1%)

0 (0%)

Mortality

70 (41.4%)

68 (97.1%)

5 (7.35%)

3 (4.41%)

33 (48.5%)

27 (39.7%)

0 (0%)

Length of stay

18 (10.7%)

18 (100%)

3 (16.7%)

1 (5.56%)

4 (22.2%)

10 (55.6%)

1 (5.6%)

Health improvement

17 (10.1%)

16 (94.1%)

0 (0%)

1 (6.25%)

5 (31.2%)

10 (56.2%)

0 (0%)

Total (accounting for duplicates)

169

161 (94.1%)

10 (6.2%)

8 (5%)

71 (44.1%)

71 (44.1%)

1 (0.6%)

  1. aPapers can have more than one approach, so percentages may total more than 100
  2. b“Other” techniques (number of studies): a comparison between ML and decisions made by clinicians (1)