@inproceedings{69d0027c528b4f14be0464b04d09b475,
title = "Relationship between very cold outside weather and surgical outcome: Integrating shallow and deep artificial neural nets",
abstract = "Patients' hospital length of stay (LOS) as a surgical outcome is important indicator of quality of care. We used EMR data to build artificial neural network models to better understand the impact of cold weather on outcome of first surgeries in a day in comparison to a matched cohort receiving surgical treatment in warm days. We found that LOS for first-in-a-day cardiac and orthopedic surgical cases are longer in very cold days.",
keywords = "Association Learning, Length of Stay, Machine Learning",
author = "Tafti, {Ahmad P.} and Yue Dong and Elizabeth Habermann and Hongfang Liu and Vitaly Herasevich",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).; 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019 ; Conference date: 25-08-2019 Through 30-08-2019",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "21",
doi = "10.3233/SHTI190646",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "1783--1784",
editor = "Brigitte Seroussi and Lucila Ohno-Machado and Lucila Ohno-Machado and Brigitte Seroussi",
booktitle = "MEDINFO 2019",
}