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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance System for COVID-19 Outbreak Prediction in a Large European Dialysis Clinics Network.

Francesco Bellocchio, Paola Carioni, Caterina Lonati, Mario Garbelli, Francisco Martínez-Martínez, Stefano Stuard, Luca Neri

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Data Science in Healthcare: COVID-19 and Beyond.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Francesco BellocchioFresenius Medical Care Italia SpA, Palazzo Pignano, 26020 Lombardia, Italy.
Paola CarioniFresenius Medical Care Italia SpA, Palazzo Pignano, 26020 Lombardia, Italy.
Caterina LonatiCenter for Preclinical Research, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7855-7851
Mario GarbelliFresenius Medical Care Italia SpA, Palazzo Pignano, 26020 Lombardia, Italy.
Francisco Martínez-MartínezSanta Barbara Smart Health S. L., Parc Cientific Universitat id Valencia, Carrer del Catedràtic Agustín Escardino Benlloch, 9, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
Stefano StuardFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany.
Luca NeriFresenius Medical Care Italia SpA, Palazzo Pignano, 26020 Lombardia, Italy.
Lombardia Informatica (Italy) · ITFondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · ITFresenius Medical Care (Germany) · DEParc Científic de la Universitat de València · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate predictions of COVID-19 epidemic dynamics may enable timely organizational interventions in high-risk regions. We exploited the interconnection of the Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) European dialysis clinic network to develop a sentinel surveillance system for outbreak prediction. We developed an artificial intelligence-based model considering the information related to all clinics belonging to the European Nephrocare Network. The prediction tool provides risk scores of the occurrence of a COVID-19 outbreak in each dialysis center within a 2-week forecasting horizon. The model input variables include information related to the epidemic status and trends in clinical practice patterns of the target clinic, regional epidemic metrics, and the distance-weighted risk estimates of adjacent dialysis units. On the validation dates, there were 30 (5.09%), 39 (6.52%), and 218 (36.03%) clinics with two or more patients with COVID-19 infection during the 2-week prediction window. The performance of the model was suitable in all testing windows: AUC = 0.77, 0.80, and 0.81, respectively. The occurrence of new cases in a clinic propagates distance-weighted risk estimates to proximal dialysis units. Our machine learning sentinel surveillance system may allow for a prompt risk assessment and timely response to COVID-19 surges throughout networked European clinics.

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COVID-19Artificial IntelligenceDisease OutbreaksHumansRenal DialysisSARS-CoV-2Sentinel Surveillanceartificial intelligenceCOVID-19machine learningoutbreak predictionSARS-CoV-2sentinel surveillance system

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PMID34574664
PMCPMC8472609
OpenAlexW3199353266

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