| ML | Machine learning |
| FMC | Flinders Medical Centre |
| EMRs | Electronic medical records |
| HFRS | Hospital Frailty Risk Score |
| SES | Socioeconomic status |
| IRSD | Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage |
| CCI | Charlson Comorbidity Index |
| CHF | Congestive heart failure |
| C-RP | C-reactive protein |
| NLR | Neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio |
| ED | Emergency department |
| LASSO | Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
| LOS | Length of hospital stay |
| RF | Random forest |
| XGBoost | Extreme Gradient Boosting |
| ANN | Artificial neural network |
| AUC | Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve |