Abstract
<h3>Abstract</h3> <h3>Background</h3> Computerized decision support systems are becoming increasingly prevalent with advances in data collection and machine learning algorithms. However, they are scarcely used for empiric antibiotic therapy. Here we accurately predict the antibiotic resistance profiles of bacterial infections of hospitalized patients using machine learning algorithms applied to patients’ electronic medical records. <h3>Methods</h3> The data included antibiotic resistance results of bacterial cultures from hospitalized patients, alongside their electronic medical records. Five antibiotics were examined: Ceftazidime (n=2942), Gentamicin (n=4360), Imipenem (n=2235), Ofloxacin (n=3117) and Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (n=3544). We applied lasso logistic regression, neural networks, gradient boosted trees, and an ensemble combining all three algorithms, to predict antibiotic resistance. Variable influence was gauged by permutation tests and Shapely Additive Explanations analysis. <h3>Results</h3> The ensemble model outperformed the separate models and produced accurate predictions on a test set data. When no knowledge regarding the infecting bacterial species was assumed, the ensemble model yielded area under the receiver-operating-characteristic (auROC) scores of 0.73-0.79, for different antibiotics. Including information regarding the bacterial species improved the auROCs to 0.8-0.88. The effects of different variables on the predictions were assessed and found consistent with previously identified risk factors for antibiotic resistance. <h3>Conclusions</h3> Our study demonstrates the potential of machine learning models to accurately predict antibiotic resistance of bacterial infections of hospitalized patients. Moreover, we show that rapid information regarding the infecting bacterial species can improve predictions substantially. The implementation of such systems should be seriously considered by clinicians to aid correct empiric therapy and to potentially reduce antibiotic misuse. <h3>40-word summary</h3> Machine learning models were applied to large and diverse datasets of medical records of hospitalized patients, to predict antibiotic resistance profiles of bacterial infections. The models achieved high accuracy predictions and interpretable results regarding the drivers of antibiotic resistance.
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