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ArticleGlobal health, epidemiology and genomics2023

Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning.

Clyde Mulenga, Patrick Kaonga, Raymond Hamoonga, Mazyanga Lucy Mazaba, Freeman Chabala, Patrick Musonda

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Article in Global health, epidemiology and genomics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Clyde MulengaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0003-0037-1365
Patrick KaongaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0003-0461-8361
Raymond HamoongaThe Health Press, Zambia National Public Health Institute, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0001-8374-634X
Mazyanga Lucy MazabaCommunication Information and Research, Zambia National Public Health Institute, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0002-5465-5710
Freeman ChabalaInstitute of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Levy Mwanawasa Medical University, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0002-5872-3602
Patrick MusondaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0002-1204-6300

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has wreaked havoc globally, resulting in millions of cases and deaths. The objective of this study was to predict mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Zambia using machine learning (ML) methods based on factors that have been shown to be predictive of mortality and thereby improve pandemic preparedness. This research employed seven powerful ML models that included decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), logistic regression (LR), Naïve Bayes (NB), gradient boosting (GB), and XGBoost (XGB). These classifiers were trained on 1,433 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from various health facilities in Zambia. The performances achieved by these models were checked using accuracy, recall,

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COVID-19Bayes TheoremBenchmarkingHumansMachine LearningZambia

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PMID37260675
PMCPMC10228226

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