Prediction model of pressure injury occurrence in diabetic patients during ICU hospitalization——XGBoost machine learning model can be interpreted based on SHAP

Background

The occurrence of pressure injury in patients with diabetes during ICU hospitalization can result in severe complications, including infections and non-healing wounds.

Aims

The aim of this study was to predict the occurrence of pressure injury in ICU patients with diabetes using machine learning models.

Study design

In this study, LASSO regression was used for feature screening, XGBoost was employed for machine learning model construction, ROC curve analysis, calibration curve analysis, clinical decision curve analysis, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and F1 score were used for evaluating the model's performance.

Results

Out of the 503 ICU patients with diabetes included in the study, pressure injury developed in 170 cases, resulting in an incidence rate of 33.8 %. The XGBoost model had a higher AUC for predicting pressure injury in patients with diabetes during ICU hospitalization (train: 0.896, 95 %CI: 0.863 to 0.929; test: 0.835, 95 % CI: 0.761–0.908). The importance of SHAP variables in the model from high to low was: 'Days in ICU', 'Mechanical Ventilation', 'Neutrophil Count', 'Consciousness', 'Glucose', and 'Warming Blanket'.

Conclusion

The XGBoost machine learning model we constructed has shown high performance in predicting the occurrence of pressure injury in ICU patients with diabetes. Additionally, the SHAP method enables the interpretation of the results provided by the machine learning model.

Relevance to clinical practice

Improve the ability to predict the early occurrence of pressure injury in diabetic patients in the ICU. This will enable clinicians to intervene early and reduce the occurrence of complications.