Developing a short-term prediction model for asthma exacerbations from Swedish primary care patients' data using machine learning - Based on the ARCTIC study.

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Karin Lisspers Björn Ställberg Kjell Larsson Christer Janson Mario Müller Mateusz Łuczko Bine Kjøller Bjerregaard Gerald Bacher Björn Holzhauer Pankaj Goyal Gunnar Johansson

Respir Med 2021 Aug-Sep;185:106483. Epub 2021 May 26.

Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Objective: The ability to predict impending asthma exacerbations may allow better utilization of healthcare resources, prevention of hospitalization and improve patient outcomes. We aimed to develop models using machine learning to predict risk of exacerbations.

Methods: Data from 29,396 asthma patients was collected from electronic medical records and national registers covering clinical and epidemiological factors (e.g. comorbidities, health care contacts), between 2000 and 2013. Machine-learning classifiers were used to create models to predict exacerbations within the next 15 days. Model selection was done using the mean cross validation score of area under precision-recall curve (AUPRC).

Results: The most important predictors of exacerbation were comorbidity burden and previous exacerbations. Model validation on test data yielded an AUPRC = 0.007 (95% CI: ± 0.0002), indicating that historic clinical information alone may not be sufficient to predict a near future risk of asthma exacerbation.

Conclusions: Supplementation with additional data on environmental triggers, (e.g. weather, pollen count, air quality) and from wearables, might be necessary to improve performance of the short-term predictive model to develop a more clinically useful tool.

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