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. 2020 May 14;9(10):e015138. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.015138

Table 1.

Patient Demographics and Distribution of Triage Categories in the Training and Validation Data Sets

Training (n=336.835) Validation (n=984)
Male sex, n (%) 188 858 (56.1) 402 (54.3)
Age, mean (SD), y 60.8 (15.5) 60.4 (15.3)
Location, n (%)
Emergency department 92 532 (27.5) 310 (31.5)
Intensive care unit 20 045 (6.0) 63 (6.4)
Noncardiology outpatient clinic 73 170 (21.7) 161 (16.4)
Noncardiology ward 86 630 (25.7) 263 (26.7)
Preoperative screening 6300 (1.9) 8 (0.8)
Recovery ward 53 994 (16.0) 163 (16.6)
Other 4164 (1.2) 16 (1.6)
Triage category, n (%)
Normal 142 456 (42.3)a 418 (42.5)b
Abnormal, not acute 153 360 (45.5)a 410 (41.7)b
Abnormal, subacute 24 731 (7.3)a 76 (7.7)b
Abnormal, acute 16 288 (4.8)a 80 (8.1)b

A 5% randomly sampled subset of the training data set was used for model tuning and internal validation. The validation data set is independent from the training data set.

a

Distribution based on text‐mining categorization of annotations by physician in daily practice.

b

Distribution based on the expert consensus panel annotations.