Machine learning-based improvement of an online rheumatology referral and triage system.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rheport is an online rheumatology referral system allowing automatic appointment triaging of new rheumatology patient referrals according to the respective probability of an inflammatory rheumatic disease (IRD). Previous research reported that Rheport was well accepted among IRD patients. Its accuracy was, however, limited, currently being based on an expert-based weighted sum score. This study aimed to evaluate whether machine learning (ML) models could improve this limited accuracy.

Materials and methods

Data from a national rheumatology registry (RHADAR) was used to train and test nine different ML models to correctly classify IRD patients. Diagnostic performance was compared of ML models and the current algorithm was compared using the area under the receive

SUBMITTER: Knitza J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9354580 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature