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. 2023 Nov 6;2:e45257. doi: 10.2196/45257

Table 2.

Patient cohort summary. We provide a summary of the patient cohort characteristics across the training, validation, and test sets. This includes the patient demographics, distributions of input features, and the prevalence of the deterioration labels across the different time windows.

Characteristic Training set Validation set Test set
Cohort demographics

Patients (n=16,901), n (%) 11,830 (70) 3397 (20.1) 1674 (9.9)


Male patientsa 7056 (59.6) 2044 (60.2) 972 (58.1)

Encounters (n=26,073), n (%) 18,319 (70.3) 5206 (20) 2548 (9.8)


Age group (years), mean (SD) 55.3 (19.3) 54.9 (18.7) 53.6 (19.1)



<40, n (%)b 4843 (26.4) 1371 (26.3) 672 (26.4)



40-59, n (%)b 5313 (29) 1506 (28.9) 728 (28.6)



≥60, n (%)b 8163 (44.6) 2329 (44.7) 1148 (45.1)


Encounters with composite outcome, n (%)b 3979 (21.7) 1144 (22) 549 (21.5)


Encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic, n (%)b 5594 (30.5) 1657 (31.8) 836 (32.8)
Observation sets (n=951,591), n (%) 673,041 (70.7) 182,795 (19.2) 95,755 (10.1)

Heart rate (beats/min), mean (SD; IQR) 78 (15.9; 68-90) 78 (16.3; 68-89) 79 (15.8; 70-89)

Respiratory rate (breaths/min), mean (SD; IQR) 18 (2.8; 18-20) 18 (2.9; 18-20) 18 (2.9; 18-20)

Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg), mean (SD; IQR) 122 (20.9; 109-137) 124 (21.6; 110-139) 122 (20.2; 109-136)

Temperature (°C), mean (SD; IQR) 36.7 (0.4; 36.5-36.9) 36.7 (0.5; 36.5-36.9) 36.7 (0.4; 36.5-36.9)

Oxygen saturation (%), (SD; IQR) 99 (2.0; 97-100) 99 (2.0; 97-100) 99 (2.1; 97-100)

Level of consciousness, n (%)c


Alert 537,853 (98.1) 144,014 (97.9) 76,376 (97.5)


Voice, pain, or unresponsive 10,685 (1.9) 3086 (2.1) 1940 (2.5)

Supplementary oxygen, n (%)d


Provided 15,201 (2.3) 3332 (1.8) 2086 (2.2)


Not provided 657,840 (97.7) 179,463 (98.2) 93,669 (97.8)

Deterioration, n


Within 36 hours 36,760 10,681 5373



Death 1100 266 154



ICUe admission 36,255 10,571 5319


Within 24 hours 31,431 9306 4556



Death 715 127 71



ICU admission 31,088 9233 4521


Within 12 hours 25,382 7633 3658



Death 358 70 21



ICU admission 25,199 7589 3643


Within 6 hours 21,332 6476 2987



Death 166 37 9



ICU admission 21,227 6452 2979

aTraining set: n=11,830; validation set: n=3397; test set: n=1674.

bTraining set: n=18,319; validation set: n=5206; test set: n=2548.

cTraining set: n=548,538; validation set: n=147,100; test set: n=78,316.

dTraining set: n=673,041; validation set: n=182,795; test set: n=95,755.

eICU: intensive care unit.