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ArticleScientific reports2024

Leveraging graph neural networks for supporting automatic triage of patients.

Annamaria Defilippo, Pierangelo Veltri, Pietro Lió, Pietro Hiram Guzzi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Annamaria DefilippoDept. Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Pierangelo VeltriDIMES Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems, UNICAL, Rende, Cosenza, Italy.
Pietro LióDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Pietro Hiram GuzziDept. Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. hguzzi@unicz.it.ORCID 0000-0001-5542-2997

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Abstract

Patient triage is crucial in emergency departments, ensuring timely and appropriate care based on correctly evaluating the emergency grade of patient conditions. Triage methods are generally performed by human operator based on her own experience and information that are gathered from the patient management process. Thus, it is a process that can generate errors in emergency-level associations. Recently, Traditional triage methods heavily rely on human decisions, which can be subjective and prone to errors. A growing interest has recently been focused on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to develop algorithms to maximize information gathering and minimize errors in patient triage processing. We define and implement an AI-based module to manage patients' emergency code assignments in emergency departments. It uses historical data from the emergency department to train the medical decision-making process. Data containing relevant patient information, such as vital signs, symptoms, and medical history, accurately classify patients into triage categories. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieved high accuracy outperforming traditional triage methods. By using the proposed method, we claim that healthcare professionals can predict severity index to guide patient management processing and resource allocation.

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AlgorithmsEmergency Service, HospitalNeural Networks, ComputerTriageArtificial IntelligenceClinical Decision-MakingHumansComponentFormattingInsertStyleStyling

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PMID38822012
PMCPMC11143315

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