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. 2017 Jun 12;17:84. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0483-8

Table 2.

Classifier performance (recall, precision and F-score). SVM RBF with binary count feature extraction was the most effective combination to identify incident type and severity level

Benchmark Original Independent
Recall Precision F-score Recall Precision F-score Recall Precision F-score
Incident type a 78.3 78.3 78.3 73.9 73.9 73.9 68.5 68.5 68.5
Falls 96.2 83.3 89.3 95.6 96.6 96.1 91.3 86.5 88.8
Medications 76.9 76.9 76.9 80.9 91.7 85.9 81.1 78.6 79.8
Pressure injury 88.5 100.0 93.9 89.2 86.8 88.0 96.8 76.0 85.2
Aggression 92.3 88.9 90.6 81.6 76.9 79.2 81.5 62.2 70.6
Documentation 46.2 63.2 53.3 46.2 31.6 37.5 47.6 16.0 24.0
Blood products 80.8 95.5 87.5 100.0 62.5 76.9 83.1 43.0 56.6
Patient identification 84.6 61.1 71.0 71.4 25.0 37.0 23.3 44.4 30.5
Infection 92.3 88.9 90.6 83.3 38.5 52.6 40.9 13.2 20.0
Clinical handover 80.8 65.6 72.4 71.4 18.5 29.4 37.9 14.3 20.8
Deteriorating patient 92.3 85.7 88.9 100.0 25.0 40.0 21.4 17.6 19.4
Others 30.8 50.0 38.1 54.7 85.3 66.7 57.1 87.0 69.0
SAC level a 62.9 62.9 62.9 50.1 50.1 50.1 52.7 52.7 52.7
SAC1 82.8 92.3 87.3 84.0 11.2 19.8 82.6 6.8 12.5
SAC2 41.4 60.0 49.0 43.2 7.2 12.3 16.2 9.6 12.0
SAC3 44.8 54.2 49.1 35.9 52.3 42.6 46.9 49.8 48.3
SAC4 82.8 52.2 64.0 62.4 61.2 61.8 58.3 61.8 60.0

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