Abstract:Purpose: Accurately assigning cause of death is vital to understanding health outcomes in the population and improving health care provision. Cancer-specific cause of death is a key outcome in clinical trials, but assignment of cause of death from death certification is prone to misattribution, therefore can have an impact on cancer-specific trial mortality outcome measures.
Methods: We developed an interpretable machine learning classifier to predict prostate cancer death from free-text summaries of medical… Show more
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