Towards a decision support tool for intensive care discharge: machine learning algorithm development using electronic healthcare data from MIMIC-III and Bristol, UK.

Objective: The primary objective is to develop an automated method for detecting patients that are ready for discharge from intensive care.

Design: We used two datasets of routinely collected patient data to test and improve on a set of previously proposed discharge criteria.

Setting: Bristol Royal Infirmary general intensive care unit (GICU).