Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Propensity Score, Cost Effectiveness and Computational Ethical Analysis of Cardiac Arrest and Active Cancer with Novel Mortality Predictive Score

Monlezun D.J. Sinyavskiy O. Peters N. Steigner L. Aksamit T. Girault M.I. Garcia A. Gallagher C. Iliescu C.
August 2022 MDPI

Medicina (Lithuania)
2022 #58 Issue 8

Background and objectives: Little is known about outcome improvements and disparities in cardiac arrest and active cancer. We performed the first known AI and propensity score (PS)-augmented clinical, cost-effectiveness, and computational ethical analysis of cardio-oncology cardiac arrests including left heart catheterization (LHC)-related mortality reduction and related disparities. Materials and methods: A nationally representative cohort analysis was performed for mortality and cost by active cancer using the largest United States all-payer inpatient dataset, the National Inpatient Sample, from 2016 to 2018, using deep learning and machine learning augmented propensity score-adjusted (ML-PS) multivariable regression which informed cost-effectiveness and ethical analyses. The Cardiac Arrest Cardio-Oncology Score (CACOS) was then created for the above population and validated. The results informed the computational ethical analysis to determine ethical and related policy recommendations. Results: Of the 101,521,656 hospitalizations, 6,656,883 (6.56%) suffered cardiac arrest of whom 61,300 (0.92%) had active cancer. Patients with versus without active cancer were significantly less likely to receive an inpatient LHC (7.42% versus 20.79%, p < 0.001). In ML-PS regression in active cancer, post-arrest LHC significantly reduced mortality (OR 0.18, 95%CI 0.14–0.24, p < 0.001) which PS matching confirmed by up to 42.87% (95%CI 35.56–50.18, p < 0.001). The CACOS model included the predictors of no inpatient LHC, PEA initial rhythm, metastatic malignancy, and high-risk malignancy (leukemia, pancreas, liver, biliary, and lung). Cost-benefit analysis indicated 292 racial minorities and $2.16 billion could be saved annually by reducing racial disparities in LHC. Ethical analysis indicated the convergent consensus across diverse belief systems that such disparities should be eliminated to optimize just and equitable outcomes. Conclusions: This AI-guided empirical and ethical analysis provides a novel demonstration of LHC mortality reductions in cardio-oncology cardiac arrest and related disparities, along with an innovative predictive model that can be integrated within the digital ecosystem of modern healthcare systems to improve equitable clinical and public health outcomes.

artificial intelligence , cardiac arrest , cardio-oncology , cost effectiveness , equity , ethics

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Department of Cardiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, TX, United States
UNESCO Chair in Bioethics Human Rights, Rome, 00163, Italy
School of Bioethics, Universidad Anahuac México, Mexico City, 52786, Mexico
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Health Equities, Global System Analytics Structures, New Orleans, 70112, LA, United States
Department of Public Health, Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, 050000, Kazakhstan
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 55905, MN, United States
Pontifical Academy for Life, Rome, 00193, Italy
Section of Integrated Ethics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, TX, United States

Department of Cardiology
UNESCO Chair in Bioethics Human Rights
School of Bioethics
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Health Equities
Department of Public Health
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Pontifical Academy for Life
Section of Integrated Ethics

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