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. 2021 Feb 12;23(2):e18372. doi: 10.2196/18372

Table 1.

Summary of patient demographic and clinical variables in the peritonitis data set.

Variables Type Value or range Description
Variable name

Patient_ID String Unique patient ID. Patient ID

Inpatient_ID String Unique inpatient ID Inpatient ID

Sex Integer 0 or 1 Male or female

Age (<20, 20-60, or >60 years) Integer (0-102) Patient’s age
Inpatient variables

DGTMa Integer (0-136) The number of hospitalizations before peritonitis surgery

Comorbidities (including malignant tumor) String [Mild liver disease, …, Renal disease] 17 classified comorbidities that include liver disease, according to ICD-9b coding algorithms [65]

Operation category String 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 Seven categories in total (adopted from ICD-9-CMc): cholecystitis or cholangitis, appendicitis, hollow organ perforation, bowel ischemia, intestinal obstruction, hernia with bowel gangrene, hernia with bowel obstruction

Complication pneumonia Integer 0 or 1 Whether a patient has pneumonia

Complication UTId Integer 0 or 1 Whether a patient has UTI

Complication SSIe Integer 0 or 1 Whether a patient has SSI
Laboratory test results

Albumin Float (0.19-5.5g per dL) Serum albumin level

Amylase Float (5-11873 U per L) Serum amylase

BNPf Float (21.49-4942 pg per ml) Levels of B-type natriuretic peptide

BUNg Float (1-281 mmol per L) Blood urea nitrogen

Bandh Float (0.3-76) Band neutrophil

Cai Float (0.8-14.49 mg per dL) Calcium in blood

CRj Float (0.07-34.2 mg per dL) Serum creatinine

CRPk Float (0.2-679.2 mg per L) C-reactive protein test 

Hematocrit Float (1-63.2%) Hematocrit test (proportion of red blood cells in the blood)

INRl Float (0.79-12) International normalized ratio of prothrombin time

Km Float (1.60-18.86 mEq per L) Blood potassium test

Lactate Float (5.49-240.6 mmol per L) Level of lactic acid 

Leukocyte (WBCn) Float (0.2-141.5×109 per L) White blood cell count

Platelets Float (0.7-1373×109 per L) The number of platelets in blood

Prealbumin Float (2-44.59 mg per dL) Prealbumin in blood

Procalcitonin Float (4.56-45.49 µg per L) Blood test to diagnose sepsis

Total bilirubin Float (0.1-56.54 mg per dL) Total amount of bilirubin in blood

Nao Float (10-190 mEq per L) Blood sodium test
Target variable (crucial complication phenotype to be predicted)

Complication phenotype Categorical AHEp, HRSq, or Neither

aDGTM: number of hospitalization before peritonitis surgery.

bICD-9: International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision.

cICD-9-CM: International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification.

dUTI: urinary tract infection.

eSSI: surgical site infection.

fBNP: B-type natriuretic peptide.

gBUN: blood urea nitrogen.

hBand: bandemia.

iCa: calcium.

jCR: creatinine.

kCRP: C-reactive protein.

lINR: international normalized ratio.

mK: potassium.

nWBC: white blood cell.

oNa: sodium.

pAHE: acute hepatic encephalopathy.

qHRS: hepatorenal syndrome.